New York’s Metropolitian Transportation Authority is looking to reduce the headache of traveling in New York City, introducing plans to implement modernized “open gangway” subway cars by the year 2020.
The design of the subway cars is similar to those used in London, Toronto, Berlin, and Paris. They’re far less cramped as passengers can be spread throughout the whole train rather than in individual cars; there are no doors separating them.
The design could boost the capacity for passengers by around 10 percent, transit experts told the New York Daily News.
The MTA said it will spend $52 million on 10 open gangway cars for two trains. The first test-run is still several years away.
“We’re using this project as an opportunity to just test that technology and see if it works for New York,” NYC Transit head Wynton Habersham said in an MTA board meeting, according to the Daily News.
The trains will also be equipped with WiFi and charging stations.
