What the actual fuck. This will just make everybody's experience taking the train worse without doing anything to stop it. 80% of the time the metal detectors won't work and the other 20% they'll beep when somebody tries to bring a bike on the train and cops will make them go off when they see a "suspicious person" to get an excuse to give them a pat down.
Adams won't spend any money on elevators or platform screen doors to stop people being pushed in front of the trains, but somehow we have the money for metal detectors that nobody asked for? What a fucking joke.
How the hell will this even work at all with the throughput required of the subway? Metal detectors will stop everyone with a laptop, a camera, etc. I don't think having that many TSA screeners would be logistically possible.
You'll have to drive! Or get a taxi/uber. Or you're just completely fucked I guess because NYC can't handle the throughput of all those transit pedestrians changing to cycling or being in a car.
Its not, if they try to do this it will literally grind the entire city to a halt, some people may accept showing up to their subway stop an hour early but most will either get a car or quit their jobs and neither possibility is compatible with the cities function
platform screen doors to stop people being pushed in front of the trains
Does this ever actually happen?
That takes me back. I'm gonna post the full copypasta now.
My comment got upbeared (upbore? upborne?) in less than 3 seconds of posting it, which is a record for me.
I think @Alaskaball gave it +1 before my own account automatically did.
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What an absolutely gigantic waste of money. The NYC Subway desperately needs to be modernized, and this will do nothing of the sort.
Considering the mayor of NYC is a pig, this makes perfect sense
Oh boy security theater. And if there's one thing New York is good at it's theater.
Now that recent shooting makes sense. FBI wanted to boost metal detector stocks.
We at least have the barrier-less part in Seattle. So barrier-less you could easily forget to swipe your bus card.
My 👁️ take is the NYPD did a mass shooting to like crack down on subway fare dodging.
HOW? HOW? HOW THE FUCK IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE? THERE'S BARELY ENOUGH PHYSICAL CAPACITY ALREADY, SUBWAY STATIONS ARE NOT LARGE PIECES OF INFRASTRUCTURE, THIS WOULD LITERALLY REDUCE THE SYSTEM'S CAPACITY BY BY AT LEAST HALF
Good news is fare evasion will be down because they can arrest anyone who jumps these are a terrorist :so-true:
Real happy I moved out of NYC at the beginning of the pandemic lol
Are they the ones that only detect ferrous metals or the ones that detect all types of metals?
If it's the kind that detect all kinds of metals, it will be going off on anyone with a medical implant lmao. I had one go off on me in a casino/shopping mall place because of the titanium in my spine lol.
thats cool as fuck, I'm in the same neighborhood. Tho the hardware was swapped to cobalt chrome at my last surgery so technically im not in the titanium gang anymore, sorry for fibbing
there's cameras everywhere but they didn't work. there's cops at every subway entrance chasing fare jumpers but they didn't catch the guy. why is the solution to the failure of surveillance and control always more surveillance and control?
