New Yorkers ought to anticipate new turnstiles at 20 subway stations by the tip of the 12 months, MTA officers stated Monday — with one other 20 coming in 2026.
The replace is the newest in a yearslong plan to take away the acquainted turnstile and substitute it with the sorts of toll gates seen in transit programs all through the world — gates that use plexiglass panels or doorways that the MTA hopes shall be tougher for riders to leap over or in any other case evade.
“These gates are the cutting edge,” MTA’s building and growth head, Jamie Torres-Springer, advised the company’s board on Monday. “[They] are aimed at both ensuring fare compliance and making the system more accessible and easier to use.”
Transit officers introduced Monday that it had chosen 4 companies — Conduent, Cubic, Scheidt & Bachmann and STraffic — whose honest gates the MTA would start testing at 20 subway stations this fall.
Cubic manufactured the present MetroCard system, and the MTA has been testing a contemporary gate-based setup from the agency on the Sutphin Blvd.-Archer Ave. station on the E, J and Z traces since late 2023.
Although some straphangers rapidly discovered a technique to journey an exit sensor and trip without spending a dime, MTA crews made a repair, and later credited the Cubic system with a 20% discount in fare evasion.
Conduent’s programs will quickly be acquainted to Backyard State commuters — their fare gates are slated to be put in at NJ Transit’s Secaucus Junction and Newark Airport stations.
The opposite companies choices could also be extra acquainted to vacationers. STraffic manufactures fare gates at present in use on the D.C. Metro, and Scheidt-Bachmann’s tools could be discovered on Boston’s MBTA.
The record of 20 stations set to obtain new fare gates from the 4 companies has not but been finalized. However transit officers stated it will embrace Brooklyn’s Atlantic Ave.-Barclays Heart station, the Nostrand Ave. station on the A and C line, and the Crown Heights-Utica Ave. on the No. 3 and 4 line.
In Manhattan, the brand new fare arrays shall be put in at Union Sq., in addition to the forty second St. cease on the A, C and E and the Delancey St.-Essex St. station of the F, J, M and Z.
In Queens, the brand new know-how will go to the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave. station and the Forest Hills-71st Ave. station of the E, F, M and R.
A dozen different stations, but to be decided, are additionally slated to get the tech by 12 months’s finish.
The MTA has budgeted $1.1 billion in its 5 12 months capital plan — which has but to be authorised by Albany — to put in trendy fare gates at 150 stations within the subsequent 5 years.
Initially Printed: April 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM EDT
