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The six centers opening in early 2023 will be located at the following stations, the MTA said:
161 St-Yankee Stadium (4/B/D)
34 St-Pennsylvania Station (1/2/3)
Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center (2/3/4/5/B/D/N/Q/R)
St. George (Staten Island Railway)
Coney Island-Stillwell Ave (D/F/N/Q)
Flushing-Main St. (7)
The nine additional centers will be located at:
Fulton St (2/3/4/5/A/C/J/Z)
Myrtle-Wyckoff Aves (L/M)
74 St-Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave (7/E/F/M/R)
125 St (4/5/6)
Fordham Rd (4)
Times Square-42nd St (1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/W/S)
Sutphin Blvd-Archer Ave-JFK Airport (E/J/Z)
168 St (1/A/C)
MTA had to find new roles for token booth agents who were displaced from that job as booths were phased out. Starting with MetroCard and so forth including arrival of OMNY or whatever it's called there isn't a need for token booth agents.
What happens after last of former token booth agents retires or otherwise leaves MTA is another matter. But that will be decades in future.
MTA had to find new roles for token booth agents who were displaced from that job as booths were phased out. Starting with MetroCard and so forth including arrival of OMNY or whatever it's called there isn't a need for token booth agents.
What happens after last of former token booth agents retires or otherwise leaves MTA is another matter. But that will be decades in future.
Perhaps this will change your mind - MTA isn't giving up on its agents yet.
"The MTA employs roughly 2,400 station agents, according to the TWU — and the agency expects to hire an additional 235 people for the job during the first half of 2023."
Personally, I do not understand MTA's end game here. It could be that they want to preserve agents to maintain a semblance of a safe environment in the stations.
Perhaps this will change your mind - MTA isn't giving up on its agents yet.
"The MTA employs roughly 2,400 station agents, according to the TWU — and the agency expects to hire an additional 235 people for the job during the first half of 2023."
Personally, I do not understand MTA's end game here. It could be that they want to preserve agents to maintain a semblance of a safe environment in the stations.
New hires are "customer service" agents and likely are told from get go their job functions will largely if not totally be outside of booths.
Perhaps this will change your mind - MTA isn't giving up on its agents yet.
"The MTA employs roughly 2,400 station agents, according to the TWU — and the agency expects to hire an additional 235 people for the job during the first half of 2023."
Personally, I do not understand MTA's end game here. It could be that they want to preserve agents to maintain a semblance of a safe environment in the stations.
Their end game is to be a public jobs program for the mediocre. A black hole money pit of sorts always pleading for a few more billion in taxpayer handouts.
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