MTAs new, noneffective fix: Letters to the Editor Jan. 21, 2025

It amazes me that Gov.Hochul and MTA CEO Janno Lieber can’t figure out how to stop farebeaters (“Spiked gates no hurdle,” Jan.

18).These spiked gates are just a waste of money.If they want to stop the fare beaters, then they need to get rid of the turnstile and put in reliable iron revolving gates.I know all this costs money, but congestion pricing was meant to help fund upgrades for our transit system.

It will be a bit of an inconvenience for passengers because it will take more time getting to the train and leaving the station.But if it saves money, then it’s worth it.With a little more common sense, things will get better.Rob JohannQueensI was a bank lending officer in Manhattan during David Dinkins’ disastrous mayoralty, when most of my corporate clients were fleeing the city for Stamford, Conn.

Then in came Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the exodus stopped almost overnight.Fare beaters were prosecuted and order was restored to the subway system.Manhattan office workers breathed a sigh of relief and returned to riding the subway.We need the NYPD, and if necessary ICE, to enforce the law on all citizens.

The MTA spending a million dollars to study why fare beaters steal is an exercise in absurdity.Ron SpurgaManhattanOne can only imagine the price the MTA paid to procure and install the saw-toothed panels attached to turnstiles.No one there gets it: Those that want to evade the system will always find a way.Certainly these are no barriers to them.In Europe, full-length plexiglass panels swing open and closed.

You can’t climb over or go under them.This may not stop determined evaders, but will provide better security than useless spikes.Michael LefkowitzEast MeadowFare evasion has become so rampant that I wonder if with better fare enforcement, congestion pricing would even be necessary (or at least less expensive).It’s time to simply replace the standard waist-high turnstiles, with or without spikes, with full-height devices.This is proven technology,...