It’s part of a pilot program to study a potential larger rollout across the city.
The MTA is look to improve tube rider ' guard , foretell that it would found a pilot program to test program room access at three subway station across the metropolis .
The New York Timesreportsthat the transportation system agency will install political platform threshold on the Times Square 7 political program in Manhattan , the Third Avenue L program in Brooklyn , and the Sutphin Boulevard – Archer Avenue – JFK Airport E platform in Queens . official say those three stations are already orchestrate to accommodate the doors , which block access to the tracks and disjoined riders from underpass trains . The three stations will serve as a mental testing case for a potential wider rollout across the city .
The engineering behind platform doors has existed for many eld and is coarse in newer subway system in many Asiatic and European country . In New York City , they already exist on the JFK AirTrain , but the MTA has long held that it would be too high-priced to retrofit the city ’s century - old subway system . A2013 psychoanalysis estimatedthat it would cost more than $ 1 billion to install them across the system , with many program unable to accommodate them due to outdated purpose . The MTA will pass just about $ 100 million on the pilot plan .
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The move comes just over a calendar month after a char waspushed to her end at the Times Square underground station . The tragic incident renewed calls for the installation of political platform door and spur Mayor Eric Adams to roll out anew underpass safety planto pile with crime and homelessness issues in the system .
" Installing subway chopine threshold where potential is a vulgar - good sense step we can take towards making the subways safer , " said Mayor Adams in a insistency statement . " I applaud the MTA for testing this thought , and my governing body will work in partnership with them to measure their effectiveness and expand where appropriate . "
Officials estimate mental synthesis oeuvre on the cowcatcher syllabus will not be done until 2024 . The result could wait something like this , as seen on the metro system in Taipei , Taiwan :
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