Waving one's hand over an ill-placed sensor is all that's needed to get past a new set of $700,000 subway gates the MTA is testing to crack down on fare-beating, which was exposed in a TikTok video.

The idea behind the new fare gates was to give subway riders easier access to the stations. But not this easy. “We are learning. And I’m learning with our customers,” said Quemuel Arroyo ...

MTA chairman Janno Lieber walks through another new fare gate design the MTA says it may experiment with during a demonstration in 2023 at Grand Central. James Messerschmidt for NY Post .

As a result of the measures, fare evasion dropped 26% in the second half of 2024, the MTA said. At the same time, the NYPD also issued 143,100 summonses for subway fare evasion in 2024, marking a ...

MTA chair Janno Lieber tests a fare-gate manufactured by Conduent, which uses sensors to track people moving through the doors and alert authorities when more than one person enters per swipe.

The MTA is getting serious about fare evasion. This fall, New Yorkers will start to see a futuristic fix popping up across 20 subway stations: modern fare gates designed to foil even the most ...

Transit riders walk through new fare gates from Cubic Transportation Systems. The gates are equipped with artificial intelligence and software with computer vision to better detect fare evaders.