After launching a TAP-TO-Exit experimental program at some Los Angeles stations, La Metro informed a significant decrease in the size of the safety accidents reported by the transit monitoring application.
The pilot was launched last year in response to fears of crime and drug use on the subway lines in the transportation system, of which the vast majority were linked to those who were not paid to ride.
In the first few months, La Metro recorded a decrease of 40 % of security incidents on the Metro B line, which runs from North Hollywood to Union Los Angeles. TAP-To-EXIT was initially launched at the Northern Terminus Station in North Hollywood before expanding it to the Union Station. It was added to a station in downtown Santa Monica on the E line late last year.
The program requires cyclists to take advantage of their metro cards when they reach their destination in order to confirm that they paid the price of their fee.
But after the Los Angeles Fire Department raised concerns due to possible safety concerns, including the possibility of bottlenecks in the exit gates during the state of emergency, the tap program was placed to go out in the city of La City while the two wings worked on a solution.
What happened next, according to a suspended offer of the La Metro Council, was a return to fears of the crime and the safety that plagued the B line before.
Data from the La Metro offer shows that Union Station has reported an increase of 116 % in the reported security incidents since the suspension of the TAP-To-EXIT program in early April. North Hollywood station witnessed a 67 % increase, according to La Metro.
The crime data that was provided to the transportation agency from the Los Angeles Police Department also showed an increase in “drug activity” on the B line.
But it was not just the safety that took a shrinkage. In the first month after the stopping stopped to the exit, the revenues collected through prices fell by about $ 35,000 in both stations.
In June, La Metro says it has submitted a “amendment request” with the firefighting department to review and restore the TAP-TO-EXIT program at the train stations as part of its competence.
“Employees are working to provide engineering and architectural drawings from Faregates in the north
Hollywood station to LAFD within 30 days, “the metro width is noted.
The current situation of these conversations between the metro and the LAFD is not clear.
Despite the decline between the two clients, La Metro says it is still planning to implement the tap to all the end of the line, including the new northern end in Pomona, which officially opens later this week.
Metro says that the program will be placed in place as long as it is supported by the Los Angeles Fire Department, which serves Bomona and has a specialty in the city.
This presentation, which also includes data from the ongoing experimental programs that include weapons detection, improving Faregates, and Throne bath The smart bathroom pilot will be shown to members Metro, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee Thursday.