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Shouldn't those emergency exits trigger some sort of alarm??
by jasonhansel 7y ago
Shouldn'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.
- jasonhansel 7y agoYep--that's what I meant.
- astura 7y agoWhat's an alarm going to do? Unless someone is right there to apprehend the suspect, and that's unlikely, the alarm is just going to go off and then what? Someone disables it 10 minutes later? That doesn't help identify the suspect.