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MTA's plans for camera installation in subway cars
2:15:32
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Michael Kemper, Chief Security Officer of the MTA, outlines the agency's ambitious plans for installing cameras in subway cars across the New York City transit system.
- The MTA chairman has set an aggressive timeline to outfit every subway car with a camera by the end of the year
- Kemper reports that 93-94% of all train cars in the NYC subway system already have some sort of video camera installed
- New train cars come pre-outfitted with different types of technology, including cameras inside train cars and conductors' cabins
- The initiative demonstrates the MTA's commitment to enhancing security and surveillance throughout the subway system
Michael Kemper
2:15:32
So yeah.
2:15:33
And and, you know, talk about cameras.
2:15:36
You you know, with the the MTA, and and and the chairman has been speaking about the, importance of cameras, the value of cameras, and the investment, made by the MTA in relation to outfitting every subway car, in New York City with a camera.
2:15:50
And, his timeline was aggressive.
2:15:54
He he he stated, and he challenged, us at the MTA to get every car outfitted by the end of the year this year.
Eric Dinowitz
2:16:01
But does that include cameras in those in between spaces?
2:16:04
Where it would actually address
Michael Kemper
2:16:05
So some yes and some no.
2:16:06
That's why it it's it's it's a conversation that the newer car train cars come pre outfitted with, different types of, technology.
2:16:15
There are video cameras being placed inside train cars.
2:16:17
There are video cameras being placed inside conductors cabins, as we speak.
2:16:23
By the here's here's what I can say.
2:16:28
Upwards of 93, 94 percent of all train cars in New York in the New York City subway system have some sort of a, video camera, installed in it.
2:16:40
We'll be at a 100% at the end of
Eric Dinowitz
2:16:41
the year.
