MTA is testing sensors, video systems that would save people who fall on subway tracks

Lives will be saved. The MTA is confident it has found ways to reduce the staggering number of people who are killed or maimed by subway trains each year. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been testing several “track intrusion” detection systems at a secret location — featuring thermal imaging cameras, laser-beam transmitters and other high-tech tools intended to alert the motorman if someone falls on the tracks. The tests have gone so well, transit executives now expect to begin installing one or more of the systems in subway stations during the 2015-2019 capital program, officials told the Daily News.
 
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