MTA’s $7.3M ‘fins’ are a joke — and yet another gift to fare beaters. There’s only one way to stop them |
Fare beaters are laughing at the MTA — again.
They’re thumbing their noses and planting a “kick me” sign as they easily bypass turnstiles affixed with thingamajigs intended to prevent such antisocial behavior.
Meanwhile, the agency continues to throw millions of taxpayer dollars on useless contraptions that don’t work.
This week, the MTA signed off on a deal with Boyce Technologies to add more fare evasion “sleeves” and those high vertical “fins” at the subway entrances. By January, 456 of the city’s 472 subway stations will be outfitted with these useless hunks of plastic and metal.
Right now, they’re in 327 stations, and it will cost an additional $7.3 million to finish the job. And when I say job, I mean charade.
The illusion that the MTA is doing anything meaningful to stop brazen fare beaters.
Because, as The Post observed this week, these apparatuses simply don’t work. At all.
Too bad the MTA scrapped a........