Critics fear MTA's tech, safety fail: $21.3M will be wasted on subway cameras

[Harry 1,090]

This is NYC Transit's fancy new camera - it costs $23,000 and doesn't even record.

 

A four-year push to hook up hundreds of cameras in 32 subway stations has become an embarrassing boondoggle, with a ballooning pricetag and nothing yet to show for it.

 

The 910 cameras, designed to capture images of straphangers entering and exiting turnstiles, won't even be wired to recording devices until some time next month.

 

By then, the pricetag will have grown from $15 million to $21.3 million - meaning each camera will cost a staggering $23,000.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/16/2010-05-16_subways_blind_spot_camera_system_is_years_late_over_budget_doesnt_record.html#ixzz0o9hNIiKj

[Grand Concourse 2,690]

They should buy an extended warranty on those things... Un-f'ing believable that they still can't get reliable cameras...

[B35 via Church 10,465]

Imagine a computer... that you can't save anything to.... no right-click, save as... none of that....

 

that's how useless these cameras are gonna be....

 

Hate to have to hear something horrific happen in any of the 32 stations these things are hooked up at, w/i the month that they're not hooked up to any type of recording device....

 

they'll be kicking themselves.. and I'm being subtle in putting it like that....

 

 

 

btw, thanks for the article, Harry.

[SoSpectacular 792]

What good is a $23,000 camera with shit video quality that can't even do the things a simple camcorder can do?!

[Queens Surface 434]

What good is a $23,000 camera with shit video quality that can't even do the things a simple camcorder can do?!

 

A 100 dollar camera is better suited for the job!

[mark1447 685]

Yeah I feel so safe this wow.... This isnt gonna stop some murderer or some criminal but just take pix/vid..

[rr4567 173]

Hah. They don't even record yet? Big waste of money. They probably won't be working next month anyway

 

 

Yeah I feel so safe this wow.... This isnt gonna stop some murderer or some criminal but just take pix/vid..

 

they want to spectate when it happens

[RTOMan 2,161]

This is NYC Transit's fancy new camera - it costs $23,000 and doesn't even record.

 

A four-year push to hook up hundreds of cameras in 32 subway stations has become an embarrassing boondoggle, with a ballooning pricetag and nothing yet to show for it.

 

The 910 cameras, designed to capture images of straphangers entering and exiting turnstiles, won't even be wired to recording devices until some time next month.

 

By then, the pricetag will have grown from $15 million to $21.3 million - meaning each camera will cost a staggering $23,000.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/16/2010-05-16_subways_blind_spot_camera_system_is_years_late_over_budget_doesnt_record.html#ixzz0o9hNIiKj

 

Its the Greedy TWU Workers fault.....

 

Since they are blaming us for all of their troubles anyway...

[R44 5278 0]

...And the MTA continues to dump money not for the people, but for their employees by avoiding lawsuits. Why am I not surprised when this we clearly live in the Land of Lawsuits? This is the same reason why the FRA so strictly controls Amtrak High Speed Trains. Either way, avoiding lawsuits definitely costs more on the long run.

[NX Express 292]

Again?