The MTA is investigating whether or not a subway operator allowed a number of minors to attempt their hand at driving a practice, after movies to that impact circulated on social media final week.
In every video, the identical practice operator might be seen standing alongside the younger males as they pilot the practice.
“Go, go go go, it’s green,” the transit employee says to at least one boy as he approaches an empty platform at 111th St. on the J practice in Richmond Hill, Queens. The boy then proceeds to press a button honking the practice’s horn.
Requested concerning the movies, an MTA spokesperson despatched a press release from NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow, indicating the company was wanting into the incidents.
“The videos are under investigation, but they appear to depict unauthorized activity that violates NYC Transit’s rules,” Crichlow stated. “Any employees involved will face serious disciplinary charges up to termination.”
The movies come amid an extended line of break-ins and joyrides by a small group of younger subway fanatics.
A number of minors have been arrested a number of instances this 12 months for allegedly breaking into parked subway trains, powering them up and taking them for a journey. In lots of instances, the minors are accused of having access to the trains with keys stolen from transit employees.
In February a 15-year-old boy — who will not be considered concerned within the movies that got here to mild final week — set off a steel detector at a Bronx Excessive Faculty with a backpack filled with allegedly stolen MTA gear. He was arrested on suspicion of taking part in at the very least eight train-related trespasses.
