{"id":339415,"date":"2025-10-28T23:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339415\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:12:34","slug":"mta-introduces-new-nyc-subway-surfing-barriers-on-7-line-heres-why-the-agency-believes-it-will-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339415\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA introduces new NYC subway surfing barriers on 7 line. Here’s why the agency believes it will work."},"content":{"rendered":"

A new piece of hardware is hitting the subway — not for speed or comfort, but to stop people from climbing on top of trains to subway surf.<\/p>\n

The MTA is now installing barriers in between cars on the No. 7 line, but there are questions if the move will actually save lives or is just being made to look like action.<\/p>\n

The “anti-subway surfing barrier”<\/p>\n

CBS News New York got an exclusive first look Tuesday at a subtle new deterrent meant to stop people from climbing on top of trains. In a locked area at the Corona maintenance facility in Queens, black, tubular barriers were being installed between cars.<\/p>\n

“So, as you can see, we’ve tried several different versions of this,” New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said. “The form or shape of it is such that it prevents a person from getting in between the two barriers. If you notice, there’s very, very little space in between. The rubber itself is a hard rubber. It does not flex.”<\/p>\n

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The MTA says it will cost around $10 million to outfit its entire fleet of subway cars with these anti-subway surfing barriers.<\/p>\n

CBS News New York<\/p>\n

The “anti-subway surfing barrier,” as it’s being deemed, is bolted into the space where teens have been filming viral dare videos.<\/p>\n

“It is extremely durable. It’s very hard. Being able to get in between is not a possibility,” Crichlow said.<\/p>\n

The MTA confirmed the experiment will cost $10 million to do the entire fleet.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Subway surfing “is a cultural issue,” NYC Transit head says<\/p>\n

The NYPD says subway surfing has claimed the lives of at least five people and injured four others this year<\/a> and was responsible for seven deaths and nine injuries in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So why did the concept of the barriers take so long to come to fruition?<\/p>\n

“It does take some time to manufacture an actual device and it took some time and we worked with the consultant to actually create it,” Crichlow said.<\/p>\n

The MTA said it is testing the barrier feature on the 7 line because the trains run outdoors and subway surfing has been prevalent on the line<\/a>. Crichlow was asked what will happen if there is another fatality related to subway surfing after the barriers are installed.<\/p>\n

“I think this is a cultural issue. It’s almost like an individual driving and texting. The phone itself is not the issue. It’s the cultural aspect of texting on the phone while driving,” Crichlow said.<\/p>\n

Riders have hope the barriers will work<\/p>\n

CBS News New York showed subway riders the new deterrent and asked them if they think it will work.<\/p>\n

“This might deter them. This might make it more difficult,” one person said.<\/p>\n

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The MTA’s “Ride Inside, Stay Alive” campaign is designed to deter people from subway surfing.<\/p>\n

CBS News New York<\/p>\n

“I hope it works. Personally, I feel if a kid wants to figure out how to get up there, they’ll figure out a way,” another said.<\/p>\n

The MTA has also plastered stations with new “Ride Inside, Stay Alive” sketches, warning riders not to participate in dangerous acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new piece of hardware is hitting the subway — not for speed or comfort, but to stop…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9904,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,28714,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-339415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mta","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-subway","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115454328987887812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}