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The Second Avenue Subway should have screen doors.

New York doesn't do a lot of transit; the transit it does do should be world-class.

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Reece
Jan 27, 2026
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New York is a great city, and it has great advocates. I believe that, if those advocates pushed hard for platform screen doors on what is the most important rapid transit project in the United States, New York could adopt a technology that has become standard worldwide and New Yorkers could have an even better Second Avenue Subway. Historically, the MTA…

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