NYC is Building Crime-Proof Subways… 

DAMN STRAIGHT! Coming back from a beach vacation is relaxing and rejuvenating, coming back from a Tokyo vacation is eye opening and even enlightening. Can’t wait to exercise my Suica card again.

Exactly

That’s getting to the core issues of crime people always think the solution is throwing police at something vs why are people doing it in the first place. Let’s figure out that why.

Education, moral education.

@@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 Imo it's because of a hyper individualist culture that glorifies outlaw and anti social behavior. Playing by the rules is seen as stupid, because those who don't seem to succeed especialy in a place like NYC.

But how else are they going to show us how to eat vegan?

7 stopped running AT ALL in the city for 2 or 3 days straight! In both directions! Yet they raise the fare....

@@sleepnomore6065fuck the 7 train bs is always packed and never on time

@@sleepnomore6065living in Queens, when the 7 is down, you are literally stranded. And they shut it down for the entire weekend

I agree that reliable service and safety should always be the top priority, but at the same time, the MTA's (insufficient) attempt to combat fare evasion IS part of an overall effort to obtain the means to achieve and maintain a good state of repair on the subway; $690 million in lost revenue every year is not insignificant. BTW those digital advertising screens actually provide a stream of revenue for the MTA.

They're so tall that you can slide through under 😂😂

Sooo, avg american wouldn't fit in them lmao

@@jonlari8273 no you still can’t slide (they’re perfect height)

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Like in Switzerland

Wanna know why security is watching their phones? Their employer flat out told them they aren't allowed to do anything. This is common MOST places in a city.

Who's Greta?

@@Triple-G-r8ness Hopefully not "that" Greta.

Everything is expensive in ny

I hopped the train yesterday lmao nobody deserves to be jailed for fined 1,000 dollars for just trying to get to work

@@FlashieBoi But why do you feel you should not pay your fair share when others are doing the right thing?

@@avatarinum you must not live in nyc lmao

@FlashieBoi Parkchester my dude. E. 177th street 6 train. It's not a perfect system, but cheating the system of the funds it needs doesn't help people overall.

@@avatarinum theres alot of people who have places to be that genuinely cant afford to pay that day to day toll because it stacks up. You call it cheatin i call it strategy if you pay thats money outta your pocket not mine

Wouldn’t work in a city this size… people are always in a rush and it would cause a major issue… I live in NYC, people would fight it immediately because it will delay them

The MTA officials' comment about wanting to see how effectively they work in a real-life situation is ridiculous. If you want to see the new turnstiles in action travel to a city that already has them deployed and observe them BEFORE signing a contract and installing them. The municipality currently using them should also have data on how effective they are over time, how prone they are to repair, and to what extent the investment recouped the financial loss from evasion. Then (and only then) should NYC based tests be conducted, including (as you suggest) including paid consultants with expertise in evading fares. The Office of the New York City Comptroller as well as the press should be all over this story. It reeks of possible corruption, which is exactly why it will get swept under the rug (or on the tracks).

@@thomasdangelo1018They are SO A$$-BACKWARDS that it’s LAUGHABLE! And I LIKE your idea of observation & documentation, too. It’s the true saying, “You can learn from others” that applies.

The government is stupid.

NY State is just broken, as a whole. They have all these plans and ideas and forget that New Yorkers take pride in figuring out how to screw the system or exploit a weakness.

Man had the nerve to say ex-criminals

Also very homogenous population. 😊

At this point New York should take away the subway system since they are losing so much money and have people beg for it to come back

Exactly 💯 They consider the way the people around them feel about the things they do! That's the problem here in the USA! We are divided bot united. TOGETHER WE STAND...DIVIDED WE FALL ❤️🇺🇲 God bless 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

@@MaxAndersonn Unfeasible. You sound as delusional as a communist.

@@MaxAndersonn Delusional. Unfeasible.

They made the seats wider to accommodate fat people?

​@@lisabrightlyno, they took seats out completely. They were bench style seats anyway.

Nyc transportation is run by the C grade students. It won't get better btw. You are better off leaving

@@PEZ1514Unfortunately the MTA is the best source of transportation since now I’m gonna get charged $15 everyday just to drive my car (which is such bs in itself).

The goal is to increase ridership, not ensure more people can have a seat. If the majority of people on the train don’t get seats anyway, then it makes sense to take out seats to make room for more riders. With the way people squeeze in, really don’t think people care as much about seats as they do simply getting on. If it weren’t the case, you’d see loads of people letting trains pass just to get a less crowded one with seats.

Why people in USA are stealing from shops or just jump gates etc? You don't see problem in that? Look how in many other places societies don't have this problem (sadly in Europe it's also changing in big cities:/)

@@Saeglopur89 USA is a big country... And filled with diverse people who do the same crime over and over. You can't just cite some other country and compare why US can't accomplish this, because there are a lot of factors

​@@Saeglopur89Europe has a rich history of countless wars on the continent to blame.

The problem is people in NYC even like Jordan, don't believe punishing people for crime. Look at how he blurred the faces of the fair jumpers. He calls the hijackers "fellow passengers" it's that mentality is why NYC is falling apart.

It doesn't even need to be tested. The result is Obvious just Looking at the thing. These gates won't stop shite they are a Slight upgrade over a turnstyle. Only the larger spinning gates for normal people and a Guard to allow people through a bypass (like the disabled and people too obese to fit through) would actually make anyone think twice. In the mechanical sense. The other issue is that NY actively Doesn't give a shite at all about the law in the first place. It's becoming more lawless by the day and those who follow the law do so at the active detriment to themselves. You say anything against criminals and you get black knights jumping down your through "who cares about the million dollar company? If you see someone steal, no you didn't. They are stealing cars because they need to get groceries. Do you value your House over a burglar's life?" Etc etc.

I don't believe that he's under news media censorship rules-???🤔. Like diabolically incompetent democratic marxist party controlled. " constipated news network" ( c.n.n. ).

nope that makes too much sense. democrats have no sense.

I've seen security guards at stations but they are really there for theatre just as with security guards in stores. They end up avoiding physical altercations so criminals get warnings but end up getting away. The cops show up an hour later when called because its not an emergency. Hiring more NYPD to watch turnstiles means another 80k Salary and with a little overtime is more like100k + pensions.

@@718ogand half the time they not doing shiiiii 😂

and what are those people going to do? unless they are police officers, and NYC cant afford to pay police to monitor fare jumpers.

SF tried this approach. It ended up being a waste of time and money. Criminals do not pay fines and do not show up to court dates. Anything short of arrests is useless.

Um that is not new

@assassin8636 Yeah, you're right. Having morals and value is not new 😄

The subways here in L.A. had no gates/turnstiles for many years!

@myoldvhstapes If people there respect the law, then that's all that matters. That's my point.

Same with the subways in Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton). Technology doesn't stop this, culture does.

Even if the police arrest them, the criminals will be out by that same afternoon while the officer is left with a days worth of paperwork

Or any prosecutors willing to prosecute criminals. NYC is collapsing

They will just charge your bank account using your facial image, physique, and the way you walk as your identification.

Like there is a task force watching all the hours of video surveillance looking for fare jumpers. lol The ONLY time any surveillance video is viewed is when they are working on a murder.

Vote blue get screwed

"Too many products seem to be designed by people who haven't watched how things are used (or abused) in real life." Yup. Just read that the newest model A trains can't even run on the express track because there wasn't proper research done about how the trains are actually used under extenuating circumstances. So those fancy new trains can only run on the local track, and if the local needs to run express for some reason all the passengers have to get off. Why did no one realize or think of this before?

Most politicians care more about being able to claim they solved a problem, than they do about actually solving it. By the time everyone knows the solution failed, it is often past the next election.

In The UK, one must also use a card to exit the station. This of course is based upon paying for the distance traveled. In this manner, there will be no sensor to open the gate.

Americans are cocky. They think they know more than everyone

"Too many products seem to be designed by people who haven't watched how things are used (or abused) in real life." Also, hiring engineers on merit rather than DEI will produce better results.

Don't forget that half of their budget goes to paying off multi decade old loans

If more people paid their fares, there would be more funds to improve bus and rail operations. Better railcars could have been put on the rapid transit system long ago; ancient stations could have been renovated, even the extension of the Second Avenue subway could have been accomplished long ago. If the funds were managed by New York City Transit as the agent, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority, as the authority, the planned projects could fall into proper perspective. Otherwise, fare evasion happens because of bad budgeting is like trying to correct a wrong with another wrong.

@@captainkeyboard1007the mta is the states responsibility to take care of, with so many people using public transport there’s no reason why it should be a for profit company.

@@jokerpilled2535 Thank you for typing to me.

​@@jokerpilled2535Not being for profit is not the same as being free. They still need fares to keep it going, and more fare skipping will make the problem worse. That being said, this is not the solution.

Where do you live? At my subway station there are *always* cops for years and years now. NOBODY evades the fares there, there is no foolishness. Everybody is on their best behavior all day, every day.

@@lisabrightly You must live in the one good neighborhood.

​@@lisabrightlywhich subway station is that? I'll visit it today and see if you're right.

@@uncountedvoter9449 no! It's not good. It's an intersection of good and bad, with tons of people both low income and upper middle class. It's a historic neighborhood with a notorious history in NYC, there has been some issues. For whatever reason the cops are always there. I've been using it for ten+ years and this entire time there hasn't been a day without the police presence. Some people who live in the neighborhood have money, and influence. Maybe *they* demand the police presence. I don't know.

@@lisabrightly The experiences I commented about are mostly from the 8th Avenue A-C-E line, 23rd Street station and 42nd Street station. I see fare evasion (and other subway crimes) daily.

some people would call it racism today. That's why you could jump as much as you like now. Enjoy.

Not anymore 😂

@@trueretyper Funny that at least 4 of the 5 fare jumper at the beginning of the video seem to be black 😞

@@trueretyperfast forward “nobody said that, they’re being attacked and have no other choice” “Voter ID is racist, they’re unable to get them”

but its free

You are a sucker for still paying MTA is corrupt and a scam

Founding fathers started a revolution over tea, MTA increases every year but service gets sorse

Lying and cheating is now part of American culture. Americans see their government do it all the time in foreign policy. So why not bring those values into every day life? Reap what you sow.

So im one of the people that hop everyday to and from work. I work in a nice office building in the city, and i used to never hop. I started about a year and a half ago. And i kinda never went back. When you realize so many people aren't paying, you do start to look stupid. At my station, no one really pays, they wait for someone to open the door. The busses may be worse in the boroughs, as people just walk on and the bus drivers dont say anything. I used to be afraid to get on busses because i thought i had to pay like 6 months ago. But its crazy what you can get away with. I currently no not pay mta a dime, and do it consistently almost everyday without getting caught, or the cops are there, but dont care. They really dont care when a door opens. Everyone just walks in, they not gonna stop everyone so they let it rock. Its crazy in nyc lol

@@NOVSinSingayour money is going to migrants anyways, so not like you are getting any support

Your joking right. The city pick out that stuff and look over it before. So the city should sue them self for picking this item

The city paid for a spec got a spec they should do better research. If they would have gone with the iron maidens (which they knew worked) and wanted newer and fancier. Maybe made them larger to accommodate luggage

But then someone's buddy would not have gotten the contract and there would be no kickback.

They aren't going to sue their friends

Actually no, it is up for the MTA engineers to write the testing specs to prove the technology not the other way around. You have clearly never been inside a construction site before

thats the point, typical scam by the gov wasting/stealing our taxes

What calling? He's doing videos and getting paid for it

@@wileecoyote5749They had better pay him!

@@wileecoyote5749 I think the OP meant Cash Jordan found his calling by doing general-information videos instead of ONLY apartment-viewing videos.

Thanks for clarifying,, that's what I meant. I've enjoyed these as well so far.

@@kristopherblyth2200 Thank you for your reply. I agree with you - I have enjoyed Cash's new style of videos also. I already have a NYC apartment, but would sometimes watch Cash's apartment-hunting videos anyway just to enjoy his oddball personality - but these information videos I like even better!

theres a reason it stopped it targeted urban kids over white kids that had a transit benefit card from there little private school

How can crowds rush out in an emergency? That sounds very dangerous.

​@@myoldvhstapes Manned shutter gates. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@@myoldvhstapes Emergency exits.

@@myoldvhstapes Well gateline is manned by an employee who can release them needs be. I assume the gates open automatically at any trigger of a fire alarm. Obviously fare evaders wouldn’t pull the alarm as it’s a criminal offence and stops trains running through the station.

The companies hired to solve this problem are surprise surprise related to politicans who are in charge of oversight.

@@NameIsDoc More likely is that the companies are heavy donors to the politicians who are in charge, and the voters just don't care (those that do moved away).

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner folks!! 🏆

@@NameIsDocWhat are the company names?

@@ste2158 City Safe Partners has a direct relationship with Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks. Infact he was it's founding ceo

Given that the poorest people live further out, it would transfer the costs to the folks coming in for minimum wage jobs. It would create a negative for taking a job further away from your home if you earn minimum wage. Given the income disparity, rich neighborhoods would be poorly staffed.

Not necessarily. What you can implement is a "default" or "Non Compliance" fare, so if you don't tap on/off you will be charged say $25. If you tap at both ends you might pay just $5 instead, thus incentivizing people to tap both ends and use the barriers correctly. Tapping both ends actually gives management really important data on how many people are using each station and what are the most desired connections, this is critical to planning and resourcing allowing for timetable or infrastructure changes that benefit passengers. You can still have a flat fare no matter where someone is traveling, it just means you have to tap both ends or get punished with the "default" fare. You can structure the fare itself any way you like, you can charge people more for certain stations or less. We have that system here in Sydney Australia admittedly the government here charges more for long distance, but it also charges more just for the Airport stations. There is however, no reason you can't charge less, you absolutely can charge less for long distance to incentivize this type of passenger. We had really quiet trains on Sundays, then they decided to give everyone a maximum $2.50 Sunday fare and ridership dramatically increased on the weekend.

Same in Washington DC.

So a tourist that only needs to use it a couple times as they visit has to pay 50 bucks. There is still some benefit for a per use charge. You only pay for what you use.

That's cheap

Yeah, where I live in Seattle it is much cheaper to just get a monthly pass applied to your IC card. There are zero gates of any kind here... but stuff needs money to function and wish people would just pay to use a service. Heard that Germany's transit is awesome, can't wait to visit one day and check it all out. I loved it in Japan!

@@Dansker_fra_Midtjylland ahh ok cool. That's a good way then. A monthly subscription would be great for the regulars.

Same here in Prague, Czech Republic - no fancy gates and no need to pay security guards to watch them.

Nahh its all over just less common in smaller cities

Never been to Paris, have you ?

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Those things are still being used by the Yekaterinburg metro, and i'm still kinda anxious when i walk throug them

That's pretty funny, have one that hits you in the nuts on a random timer just in case people try to evade it.

Но есть у них один минус: через них можно прыгать

Nu Pogodi, episode 5

I agree with you. I am a responsible person and I pay for all my subway rides too, even if others are going through the emergency gates.

I'm not gonna lie I open the gate for others to be nice but after this video I'm just going to stop.

@@sonderexpeditions If you open the gate to help people avoid paying the fare, you are stealing money from our subway system which is needed to pay subway drivers and make train repairs. We all lose.

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@@sonderexpeditions I understand that these are hard times for everyone but this is driving up the fares and we the people that pay are feeling the consequences.

Don’t automatic pay tolls do something like that already?

​@@playlistss4953 yeah. many turnpikes, toll roads, & toll bridges have phased out manned toll booths in favor of transponders like EZ Pass linked to prepaid account/credit card or license plate tolls.

To Matt Mattson 7152: Crime conspiracies will be how the "cooky" crumbles.

They want me to scan my palm print at the clinic. No.

@@playlistss4953they will do it by taking a photo of your plate, or by the magnetic sensor you can mount on your windshield. Far less dystopian than facial recognition imho

hahahaha i lived in istanbul for 12 years people try to get free rides any time

Unless you're a (N.Y.C) street thug😈 or illegal border crosers alien-!!!😉. The laws are enforced in Istanbul obviously-!!!🤗.

Because MTA is garbage and a scam is the reason

It's so bad they aren't even locking up the stuff, they are locking the doors and closing down. It is a mayorial issue.

It's not just because people feel like they can do whatever. It's also because people just can't afford to get anything done in NYC.

@littlemoth4956 That may be the case, but if life is so difficult financially in NYC, why are people torturing themselves and staying there. They could live more comfortable lives in other areas of the US.

@@ClaireandNanamiare you serious? IF PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY IN NYC,HOW ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE THE MONEY TO MOVE ELSEWHERE???

An honest society.

I still sneak in and out through the exits at Downtown Crossing and Park street. I WILL NEVER STOP!

@@jimmyboy1582 why would you admit to a crime? Are you stupid, how dumb exactly are you?

​@@jimmyboy1582lol

YET! There probably already is a copycat offender making plans. 🙄

@@jimmyboy1582hope they add jail time for people caught doing it

I would argue that saying morals is the core issue is ignoring the many factors that go into people doing immoral or illegal actions. The subway is not an insignificant fee, and the cost of living in NY is extremely high, the subway fee can end up being a significant expense. Many people already do it and haven't been punished for it, so you feel like a sucker if you pay. And you really need to use the subway in NY if you're commuting any longer distance. Mix em all together and you get a situation where you need to use a system that puts a real dent in your wallet that is trivially easy to avoid and unlikely to be punished.

@@Saltiencethere are a lot of people with low funds who would never steal or commit crime.

You're 100% right 👍 this country is lacking morals.. respect and most kids are growing up with no fathers.. I've seen videos and RU-vidrs from Japan they have a city too just like New York City they have millions of people too but it's very very clean subways are clean the Japanese have pride in their Cities.. I don't want to sound racist but it's the truth they have no blacks or Hispanics living there..

​@@Saltienceit's not just morals or the subways it's everything in New York City it's the garbage ..the homelessness the drugs the illegals the crime ..carjackings and looting New York City is a DUMP..

Lets not turn Japan into some ideal moral society. They also have major social problems too. They just don't talk openly about them. The Japanese police will also keep you in prison until they force a confession out of you. That's how they get a high conviction rate.

2:05 They make the problem.

It is an excuse for them not being able to balance their budget. They lose millions but they make billions. It is not worth their money to stop it. They just need to make it enough of a hassle to deter most people.

Tell me what happens when those fair evaders just don’t take the train at all? Does the MTA some magic more revenue ?

@@vonmitchell264 that was exactly my thought. They still make enough to upkeep the system without those cheating passengers. The extra passengers don't wear and tear the trains enough to be a problem. The real issue is how little they care about passenger safety, by letting ill intentioned people in to cause havoc. A certain issue a couple years ago would never have happened if those who don't pay couldn't get on the train due to guards.

@@unturned6066If people follow the law and pay. At least they can use those money to repair the station. And don’t give me the shit of people can’t pay. If you are low income, nyc will give you a metro card for free so you don’t have to pay. People just simply don’t like to follow the law in NYC

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How 1930’s Germany of you.

@@hamfox9714fr wtf is the us coming to

UK Trains are great. I found the London tube very good compared to NYC subway, cleaner and well kept. This was 2008-10 tho

Yeah, they are very easy to bypass if you happen to have a copy of the "Metro" or any other newspaper and know how to use it ;)

There’s cops on the subway that just watch the people jumping the turnstiles 💀 they dont care 97% of the time, not sure what their purpose is lol

"Tendency to politeness" is the key issue here. American has fostered a culture of "tendency of indifference" or outright sociopathic selfish behavior.

Its the exact same company who created these gates that did the LU gates, Cubic

YES! The gates being tested on BART are much better designed. I hope LA Metro installs them as well. They are the best I've seen so far to prevent fare evasion.

My dinosaur park tho👀

Clock is already ticking for a lot of cities. There's more empty (and decent) housing than there are homeless.

It is the middle class that are leaving. The rich people moving in do not need the subway.

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Its not that accurate or objective. He keeps talking about "the city" paying for these things when the MTA is a state agency. That's literally the most basic thing about NYC Subway policy and yet he apparently doesn't know it. Also he keeps quoting the statistic that NYC lost nearly $700 million from fare evasion in 2022, yet he doesn't mention that according to the MTA's own statistics more than 75% of that was from bus fares, not Subways, and most of those were people who were waved on by bus drivers during rush hour so the bus wouldn't be delayed.

I mean public transit is not expected to pay for itself. Busses and trains provide a huge boost to the local economy so it make economic sense to subsidise them from other taxes. In the same way road and vehicle tax doesn't cover the cost of maintaining roads and we use other taxes to pay for them.

Who cares without people on the buses no one gets to work no economy bus driver don’t get paid.

The MTA agency is a criminal organization. I'd love to see those books and what they really spend money on.

@issacmcgann9918 but if people don't pay how do you expect the busses to run

@krazyfan2000 if we saw what you spend your money on what would it say about you

France has significantly less fare evasion. If the gates saw the same level of fare evasion as they do in France or the UK it would have been considered a huge win.

The Moscovites enforce & obey their laws. As the diabolically devastating (N.Y.C.) thugs😈 don't. See the difference-???🤔.

No one cares about each other here when personal convenience is compromised.

Fr like america is actually ass and is only not colasping from government debt

Yeah so women can get groped in there by a gang of men. No thabks

People also crawl under the three-arm turnstiles.

This city releases people who are accused of felonies. You think people accused of fare evasion care? Go ahead, write me a ticket. 8:57

That won't work. Remove a finger or a toe and people will think twice.

You wanna supervise someone like that for the day? You think they'd follow through on that anyway? Get realistic.

These people arent working enough to pay cheap af train fare, they certainly will not be useful working for the community. I learned the hard way that some people are so useless when put to a task, that its more efficient to send them home then include them in the job. You can put a man to task, but if he is not willing to contribute the appropriate amount of effort, mentally, emotionally and physically, then you will lose more than you gain. Yes, that even includes simple community tasks like cleaning up trash along the highway. "Which bag do I put the trash in? My trash picker forks are bent what do I do? I dont see any of the trash you are talking about..." Try dealing with that all day on top of laziness and bad attitudes. Our best and most productive people in society work quickly, efficiently, with little complaint and at the expense of their own present moment within the realm of free will. Forced workers are not those people.

@@Dragonologist 👍

They are pretty negative though

MTA fares are not based on distance. Pay once, ride forever.

In singapore, you pay a fee of say 20$, then you get a refund, depending where you get off. If you fail to check out at a location, you get hit with a full 20$ fee.

@@MoonLiteNiteso if you sneak in, there’s no 20buck fee.

Oh yeah same for China 🇨🇳

The laws are different and I doubt NYC would take it to that extreme.

@@ryonalionthunder Well you also would have to sneak out, because if you checkout, that would be your check in time. So you have to do the sneaking TWICE and not get caught in either case... And in singapore, you don't fuck around, cause you don't wanna find out. Basically, start actually enforcing laws if you wan't compliance, shitty over priced machines don't change people's attitudes torwards theft. A whip sure will.

We used to have similar gates in Russia, but they are made of metal and hit your legs. And play creepy music when you try to evade fares

Shaming 😅... put up pictures for one's that get fine also