Elkak said another operator saw the canon on the roof of the train while traveling the opposite direction and reported it on a radio. Due to the complex radio service, he said he was not warned.
But she thinks that even a simple solution can save the life of the cavity: closing the doors at the end of the subway cars. This will eliminate access to the narrow space between the train cars, where subway surfers use handheld to wave themselves on the roof.
“When we are in the service, lock it so that people cannot climb and cannot go over the train,” said Elkak.
MTA leaders have said they look for potential ways to prevent subway surfing, including engineering solutions, but the agency refuses to make any of its security experts available for interviews.
In 2023, Richard Davey, head of buses and subways for MTA, said the option was “weighing” the door to lock the gates between the cars-which has now been done on a handful of trains of the 1980s. – But he said closing the doors “poses its risk.” Some New Yorkrs have complained that locking the passage of train cars can prevent them from escaping another part of the train during an emergency.
Last year, under inquiries from City Council members and reporters, MTA officials rejected some other physical intervention, which would create more obstacles to prevent access to the tracks, or to be found among train cars. Covering on the sects involved to prevent the surfers from climbing.
“Listen, you have to be able to work on the train car,” said Jinno Labor, CEO of MTA.
The MTA has asked social media companies to download videos that glamorizing the subway surfing. It has also promoted public service announcements in which people have been asked to “ride, survive” in the voices of local adolescents.
More than 300,000 children from New York City School use the subway every day to go to school.
The NYPD reported that the arrest of the alleged subway surfers was 229 last year, which was more than 135 years before. According to police, most of them were boys, with an average age of 14 years. The youngest was 9 years old.
Retro -feeding trains will be expensive to prevent access to the roofs, said Branselav Dmitryjich, an engineering professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
“There are many stories in transport where things can be fixed, but they spend a lot of money. And then you ask the public, ‘Do you pay for us to fix it You will be very pleased with the taxes.
Dmitryjich suggests that the MTA may install the camera and use artificial intelligence to detect riders trying to climb the train. Andrew Alprett, a non -voting member of the MTA board, said he was asking the agency about the refusal of physical sensors but no response was received.
NYPD has patrolled the famous surfing routes of the subway with the drone, but missions cannot be everywhere.
In some other cities, trains, such as Hong Kong and Dubai, are unable to climb easily. They have smoked the bodies, lack of handles from the outside and do not open among the cars.
Some rail systems have resorted to extreme tactics to prevent people from riding on trains. In Indonesia, once a railway official Flails of the hanging metal To avoid excessive crowds to prevent passengers from riding on train cars. They also tried to sprinkle the riders with red paint and hit the broom.
The MTA has recently purchased some new subway cars in which the subway surfers have not been exploited by external sects, but they currently represent a silver of the number in the service, and soon anybody. Even time will not be deployed on popular lines for surfing.
