New York’s subway system will test out platform barriers at three stations, a month after a passenger was pushed to her death on the tracks.
The agency that runs the subway, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has resisted the dividers for years, calling them expensive and impractical for the century-old system. But after the grisly death of Michelle Go, as well as several other recent incidents in which commuters have been pushed onto the rails, the MTA has finally decided to give the platform-edge barriers a try.
