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The suspect appears to use the tunnels to escape, not the stations >Then, he disappears, most likely through the subway tunnels and out an emergency exit.
by astura 7y ago
The suspect appears to use the tunnels to escape, not the stations
>Then, he disappears, most likely through the subway tunnels and out an emergency exit.
- codedokode 7y agoBut they have to get into the tunnel first, probably from the station. If anyone is able to enter the tunnel from outside, then it is dangerous, because they can put a bomb or a crowbar on the rails.
- moltar 7y agoWell then why aren’t there cameras in the tunnels?
- greenyoda 7y agoThe cameras are probably deployed to prevent crime, and there's very little crime in the tunnels because very few people are stupid enough to risk their lives by entering them. Besides, the tunnels are dimly lit.
- smogcutter 7y agoThere are a great many more people in the tunnels than you may think: https://www.amazon.com/Mole-People-Life-Tunnels-Beneath/dp/155652241X https://www.amazon.com/Mole-People-Life-Tunnels-Beneath/dp/1... That said, you're absolutely right that cameras in the tunnels would be pointless. It's dark!
- astura 7y agoThere's 220 miles of subway tunnels (though not all are underground). On top of that one can simply just use a dollar store ski mask to avoid camera identification.
- jasonhansel 7y agoShouldn't those emergency exits trigger some sort of alarm??
- frosted-flakes 7y agoThe emergency exits in the stations used to, and the signs still say "alarm will sound if opened", but they were disabled around 2014 because there were too many false alarms. Mostly because the emergency exit doors are also used for strollers, luggage, etc. that can't fit through the turnstile, or as a general exit when there's a large group of people exiting. Case Neistat did a New York Times Op-ed video on YouTube about it, before they were disabled: https://youtu.be/aUcP5OD-ctQ https://youtu.be/aUcP5OD-ctQ
- morpheuskafka 7y agoWhy couldn't they just program an employee ID badge to open the door silently and let the employee open the door for bulk items?
- hanniabu 7y agoYou'd be paying somebody to stand there all day at multiple points for each station. This isn't a situation that happens once a half hour, it's every minute or so.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoThe alarms are at unmanned stations, which have ceiling-height turnstiles. The doors get used every few minutes.
- ummwhat 7y agoWrong emergency exit. What they meant was the emergency exits from the tunnels themselves, which are located halfway between each pair of stations and lead directly to the street via unassuming yellow hatches in the sidewalk.
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