For parents, the subway exit gates are the only thing working in a hellscape of broken elevators and late trains. AdrianeQ writes
When most New Yorkers picture fare evasion, they likely imagine the balletic leap of a nimble high-schooler over a glinting turnstile. What they should be picturing is me: a schlubby 37-year-old white lady coated in a thin layer of cat fur, wheeling a stroller through the emergency-exit door. Cost to taxpayers: $5.50, because I also convinced someone on the other side of that emergency-exit gate to push it open for me. For free.
The MTA seems to teach parents to skirt its rules. Some stations do have accessible doors — with an attached card reader, programmed to swing the door open. But others expect stroller users to abandon a child at the door, head to a turnstile, and come back around from the other side, hoping child services doesn’t find them first.
The MTA’s focus on making it harder to get on trains — instead of easier — irks the activists who have been pressuring the agency to become 100 percent accessible. Jennifer Van Dyck, with the, called the focus on gates “insulting”: “It is about priorities, and their priorities are pretty cockeyed at the moment.”
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