Subway Will Test Platform Doors at 3 Stations
The New York Times
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which had resisted calls to add platform barriers, will begin a pilot program amid outcry over safety in the transit system.
More than a month after a woman was shoved to her death in front of a moving subway train, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will install barriers that block access to the tracks at three stations, the agency’s chief executive said on Wednesday.
The move is a reversal for the transit authority, which has long resisted calls for such barriers, calling them impractical, expensive and incompatible with such an old subway system.
As recently as last month, Janno Lieber, the M.T.A.’s chief executive, said that the barriers — known as platform edge doors or platform screen doors — were unfeasible given the “special complexities” in New York’s subway, a sprawling, 104-year-old system with 472 stations and 665 miles of track.
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