New York, NY – An initiative to put surveillance cameras onboard subway cars took another small step forward today as the MTA announced a pilot program to install cameras on two subway cars.
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The prototype cars will be the new R160 model, now in service on the L, N, J, M and Z lines.
A similar pilot is already underway on buses — about half the Manhattan bus fleet has been outfitted with cameras as part of a $5 million pilot program, which officials say has been successful in combating vandalism. [ny1]
And who pray tell, is going to watch the cameras in 2500 subway cars?
wow they can watch the homless