NYC Subways to Roll Out Platform Barriers in Pilot Program
- Program to start at three stations in Manhattan and Queens
- Move comes as agency faces growing calls to boost security
People wait for a train in a subway station in New York.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to start installing platform doors at three New York City subway stations as it moves to test a quick way to increase rider confidence in the nation’s largest transit system.
The agency will launch a pilot program in Manhattan and Queens to install the barriers. The doors will be tested out at Times Square on the 7 line platform, Third Avenue on the L line, and at the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue-JFK Airport stop on the E train, Janno Lieber, the MTA’s chief executive officer, said Wednesday on 1010 WINS.