MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said this week that a number of factors will determine to what extent the agency embraces open gangway trains in its latest order of modern subway cars.
During a press conference following the MTA board’s March 26 meeting, Lieber said the transit agency is still in the midst of evaluating both the operational and maintenance challenges that come with open gangway trains. The trains feature cars joined via accordion-style apparatus, allowing passengers to walk the length of an entire train without going outside. The open gangways replace the interior doors that have been standard on subway trains for a century.
