Police are investigating a video shared online Sunday evening that shows a motorcycle riders riding their motorbikes through the doors of a Midtown subway train.
The trio of two-wheelers was videotaped riding their bikes across a subway platform before rolling through a train door. It’s not clear if the video was actually taken Sunday night — but an NYPD spokeswoman said the department is looking into the matter.
The overhead announcements in the video clip suggests the hooligans boarded a Queens-bound F train at the Rockefeller Center subway station, which has an elevator that could have enabled the bikes to get to the platform.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials were not pleased by the motorbikes on the subway and encouraged straphangers to report instances shown in the video to police or transit employees.
“This is not only alarming for other passengers but it’s completely unsafe,” said MTA Chief Safety Officer Patrick Warren. “Motorized vehicles pose a hazard to our customers and are banned in the subway system.”
People may bring pedal-powered bikes into the subway but they are prohibited from riding them on the platform.
The MTA in 2016 even banned hoverboards from all of its transit facilities out of concern that the devices’ lithium-ion batteries could explode.
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Source: NY Daily Times