NEW YORK — New York City Transit will install security cameras on its entire fleet of subway cars, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday.
“I am proud that we will be installing cameras on all Subway cars — expanding our security capabilities, deterring crime, and providing our law enforcement with support,” Hochul said in a press release. “As we continue welcoming riders back to the transit system, we will continue doing everything in our power to keep riders safe.”
The project, funded by a $3.5 million from the state and a $2 million grant from the federal Urban Area Security Initiative, will enable purchase of 5,400 cameras, with two installed on each of NYC Transit’s 2,700 subway cars. It will also pay for an additional 3,800 cameras at some 130 stations, bolstering an existing network of 10,000 cameras at the 472 stations in the New York subway system.
“It’s been proven time and time again that cameras in the transit system help fight crime throughout the whole city, not just on the subway,” New York City Transit President Richard Davey said. “Expanding the camera network will serve to deter those who are intent on committing a crime from entering the transit system.”
Approximately 200 cameras per month will be installed until the entire subway fleet is equipped sometime in 2025. New R211 subway cars on order will be camera-equipped when they begin arriving in 2023.
All Metro-North commuter trans and more than 90% of Long Island Rail Road trains are already equipped with cameras. Camera installation across all subway stations was completed in 2021.
I was going to comment on this post but you guys all said what I was going to say so I won’t bother to waste your time.
Must be a political payoff to the head of whichever union will get the installation contract, to be laundered and end up right back in her campaign coffers. I have no doubt the guys who do the job won’t see a penny.
Worthless. All the cameras will be painted over within weeks.
WHY? The prosecutor will just release anyone arrested with no bail having to be posted. Everyone in these areas will have their cellphones out recording the events anyway so there is already enough coverage.
Once again, Taxpayers in the State of New York are paying for the chaos in the Big Apple. How about un-defunding the NYC Transit Police and putting the cops back on the trains.
How about detering crime by putting repeat criminals in prison, and leaving them there. Totally escapes a Democrat governor, from New York to Illinois to Oregon.
I don’t want to ride a subway car in the company of repeat criminals who should be in jail. A security camera makes absolutely no difference.