NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Over 100 high-definition LCD screens will be installed on MTA buses in an aim to make buses safter, MTA officials announced Monday. The security monitor screen pilot program hopes to enhance safety on buses, deter crime, and provid evidence to law enforcement, the agency said. The screens will continuously live […]
Jason Maser was fatally hit by a train around 10:35 p.m. near the Syosset station after he "intentionally" stepped in front of the train at the Woodbury Road crossing, MTA spokesperson Michael Cortez said in a statement.
The MTA’s faregate experiment at the Sutphin Blvd.-Archer Ave.-JFK subway station is showing results — a 20% reduction in fare evasion, say MTA officials, who attribute the improvement mainly to the removal of an emergency gate through which fare evaders often entered the Queens train stop. The new gates, installed in December, replaced one bank of turnstiles at the station with motorized, .
A crew member aboard an out-of-service MTA train involved in an Upper West Side subway crash and derailment that injured 24 claimed to have ordered the train to stop before it collided with a passenger-carrying train, says an agency document reviewed by the Daily News. “I told you to stop and stay!” the crew member was heard saying over the radio moments after the Thursday afternoon crash at .