{"id":539382,"date":"2026-01-24T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/539382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:56:23","slug":"what-do-new-yorkers-think-of-the-latest-fare-gate-model-that-the-mta-is-testing-out-on-the-6-line-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/539382\/","title":{"rendered":"What do New Yorkers think of the latest fare gate model that the MTA is testing out on the 6 line? \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A straphanger uses the new fare gate at the 23 St-Baruch College stop in Manhattan on Jan. 23, 2026. <\/p>\n

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n

The MTA introduced the third and final model of its potential new subway fare gate designs this week, kicking off its citywide gate remodel at the 23rd Street-Baruch College station, on the 6 train line.<\/p>\n

The new gates, aimed at clamping down on fare evasion and turnstile jumping<\/a>, are part of a pilot program testing new models at 20 subway stations. Korean technology company STraffic, which recently installed the same gates at 50 train stations in San Francisco, brought the third design to New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally like it, I think it\u2019s easier to get in,\u201d Olivia, a 6 train rider, said of the new gates on Friday. \u201cIt seems very modern, kind of like what you would see in a European train station.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olivia said the old school turnstiles make it hard for people with big bags, like herself, to get through the gate, so the new design, which offers tall glass doors that open down the middle, are a welcome change. And, she expects the design will help with fare evasion.<\/p>\n

\"NewThe MTA introduced the third and final model of its potential new subway fare gate designs this week, kicking off its citywide gate remodel at the 23rd Street-Baruch College station, on the 6 train line.Photo by Shea Vance<\/p>\n

The MTA has contracted three vendors \u2014 STraffic, Conduent, and Cubic \u2014 to implement designs at 20 stations throughout the city \u2014 a process that began last year. The MTA is intermittently closing some station entrances<\/a> for implementation.<\/p>\n

After the MTA selects a vendor, or vendors, it will install the new gates at 150 stations across the five boroughs. The stations will be selected based on ridership, fare evasion rates, accessibility needs, and whether they are deemed a \u201cmajor transit hub,\u201d according to the MTA\u2019s website<\/a>. All stations that serve 75% of New York City subway riders will be equipped with the new gate design.<\/p>\n

\"NewThe new gates, aimed at clamping down on fare evasion and turnstile jumping, are part of a pilot program testing new models at 20 subway stations. Korean technology company STraffic, which recently installed the same gates at 50 train stations in San Francisco, brought the third design to New York City.Photo by Shea Vance<\/p>\n

Caio, another 6 train rider, said he hopes the renovations don\u2019t stop at the new gates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks nice, obviously. I don\u2019t know how much it costs, I just hope that the next investment that I would prefer over this is on the actual quality of the trains and platforms,\u201d Caio said. \u201cIt does look a little cleaner here, I don\u2019t know if there was a deep cleaning recently, but I would love for that to not stop here.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York State is shouldering the cost of the new gates through the 2025-2029 Capital Plan, fully funded and approved by the state legislature in 2024. The funds are available<\/a> largely thanks to congestion pricing, the one-year-old program<\/a> that charges cars to drive through Manhattan below 60th Street during peak hours.<\/p>\n

The MTA is also hoping to improve platform accessibility and \u201cpassenger flow\u201d with the new gates. Some passengers found the new gates to pose some tech issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cAesthetically, they look nice. Honestly, I think the OMNY system in general has a lot of flaws. Many times, I\u2019m tapping, and it just doesn\u2019t work,\u201d Hector, a 6 train rider, said. \u201cThe bar ones just seem to work \u2026 these ones look nicer, look more modern, but if they actually worked 100% of the time I would like them more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"A straphanger uses the new fare gate at the 23 St-Baruch College stop in Manhattan on Jan. 23, 2026.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell \"\"Instructions on the fare gate advise customers not to wait for the gate to close before moving on.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

The MTA retired MetroCards at the start of 2026, shifting to a tap-only system through its OMNY card readers.\n<\/p>\n

A July survey of riders<\/a> by the Permanent Citizens Advisory Council, which worked with the MTA on a report on improving OMNY, found that nearly 75% of riders had encountered some kind of issue with OMNY\u2019s tap-and-go system.<\/p>\n

Survey respondents, however, were \u201cgenerally positive\u201d about the switch, and gave OMNY a 3.43 out of 5 rating overall. Of respondents, 54% gave it a rating of four or five.<\/p>\n

Despite the MTA\u2019s efforts, turnstile jumpers are having fun with the new gates. Skilled fare evaders earlier this month held the \u201cFare Evasion Olympics<\/a>\u201d at the new gates at Manhattan\u2019s Broadway-Lafayette Street, which were installed in December. The winner received a cartoonishly large $3 check \u2014 enough for one subway or bus ride after a recent fare hike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Megan, who was visiting New York City from her home state Indiana, said she liked the new gates at 23rd Street-Baruch College.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great, it\u2019s easy, I just couldn\u2019t figure out which way to put my phone,\u201d Megan said. \u201cThis is easier because I have my backpack.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The next installations will be at Crown Heights-Utica Avenue, Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue\/74th Street-Broadway, and Delancey Street-Essex-Street, according to the MTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A straphanger uses the new fare gate at the 23 St-Baruch College stop in Manhattan on Jan. 23,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":539383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[19851,5229,238201,238202,13845,92133,9904,405,403,54858,5226,5225,5228,5227,38598,105136,24672,26945,238203,238204,57656,238205,238206,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-539382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-accessibility","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-capital-plan","11":"tag-commuter-experience","12":"tag-congestion-pricing","13":"tag-fare-evasion","14":"tag-mta","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-transit","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-subway","23":"tag-omny-system","24":"tag-pm-newsletter","25":"tag-public-transit","26":"tag-subway-fare-gates","27":"tag-subway-modernization","28":"tag-subway-stations","29":"tag-transit-technology","30":"tag-turnstile-jumping","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-united-states-of-america","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","35":"tag-us","36":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539382","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=539382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}