{"id":30868,"date":"2023-12-06T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/en\/?p=30868"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:32:22","slug":"mta-installs-new-fare-gates-at-queens-station-aimed-at-stanching-the-fare-beating-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/30868","title":{"rendered":"MTA installs new fare gates at Queens station, aimed at stanching the fare-beating crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has installed new fare gates at Queens Station, as part of a test of potential designs aimed at stanching the fare-beating crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has installed new fare gates at Queens Station, with pedal straphangers in the doors allowing easy passage of bags or luggage.<\/p>\n<p>Penn Station at 8th Avenue will be the second station to get the new setup, where new fare gates will be installed next week.<\/p>\n<p>The new gates were developed by Cubic Corporation, the contractor for the MTA&#8217;s large-scale delay and OMNY fare payment system.<\/p>\n<p>The installation follows the MTA&#8217;s experimentation with several models of fare gates commonly used in other major U.S. and European transit systems as potential replacements for its turnstile setup.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA chairman says he hopes the department will approve changes to the station&#8217;s design that would allow the agency to eliminate emergency fare gates that are often left open, which he calls fare theft, named as &#8216;Super Highway&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has installed new fare gates at Queens Station, as part of a test of potential designs aimed at stanching the fare-beating crisis. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has installed new fare gates at Queens Station, with pedal straphangers in the doors allowing easy passage of bags or luggage. Penn Station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30871,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions\/30871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}