The Metropolitan Transportation Authority revealed Wednesday that farebeaters deprived the agency of as much as $690 million last year as it announced plans to dramatically redesign subway station …
— as it announced plans for dramatic changes to the systems designed to cut losses.
“We can’t put at risk of working class and middle class New Yorkers to get where they need to go,” said MTA chairman Janno Lieber. “That is money that could be used to provide more service, more frequent service, more reliable service. It could be used to invest in infrastructure.” Roughly half of the fare evasion comes from straphangers flowing through emergency exit doors that are either propped open or unlocked, while the rest comes from riders either jumping, slipping through or ducking underneath the turnstiles.
However, the 124-page report included a tantalizing hint of the stations that officials may be eyeing as first in line for the overhaul — featuring renderings of how the new fare gates may reshape the main concourses of the Jay Street/Metrotech and the 34th St./Hudson Yards stops.James Messerschmidt for NY Post
The MTA’s report also chalked up some of the fare evasion to the extraordinarily complicated student MetroCard system, which it says should be simplified and expanded.
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