The MTA has installed new metal barriers on subway platforms in Brooklyn and Manhattan since the start of 2024 — and transit officials said they plan to add even more by the end of the year.
The barriers are now in place at platforms in 10 stations, half of which are on the L line. They’re a little more than 4 feet tall, and are fixed in sections that do not line up with locations where subway car doors open. There is room between each barrier for passengers to board and exit trains.
The new equipment is a nimble solution by the MTA to keep riders from falling — or being shoved — onto subway tracks. The MTA faced calls to make its subway platforms safer after the high-profile 2022 murder of Michelle Alyssa Go, who died after she was shoved in front of a train at the Times Square station by a man who was later deemed emotionally disturbed and unfit for trial…