What are the benefits of reopening shuttered entrances, one may ask? The benefits are 10-fold.

Doing so would:

• • Allow people to enter/exit stations as quickly as possible
  • Reduce crowding at open entrances (making it easier to socially distance!)
  • Eliminate or reduce queues to enter stations
  • Reduce platform crowding
  • Balance passenger loads on trains
  • Increase the number of emergency egress points
  • Increase foot traffic near local businesses
  • Improve connections to nearby bus routes
  • Reduce walking times & place more people within walking distance of the subway
    • Allows people to make trains they otherwise would have missed
    • Help people to avoid crossing dangerous intersections