Two ceiling-mounted picture surveillance photographic camera are seen as a ordinal 1 metro railroad train arrives at the 34th Street station Tuesday, Mar 30, 2010, in New York On a metro train in the center of Manhattan, two men were stabbed to death after a night out clubbing But three days after the slaying, law force were still piecing together a description of the slayer because there were no surveillance photographic camera in the station. About half of the 4,313 photographic camera installed along the metropolis public transITsystem aren’t operable, and transit police force have been cut at some of the metropolis major Harry Bridges and tunnels, which some say could make the city more vulnerable to crime or a terrorist onslaught

A four-year pushing to hook up hundred of photographic camera in 32 metro Stations of the Cross has become an embarrassing boondoggle, with a ballooning pricetag and nothing yet to show for it.

The 910 photographic camera, designed to gaining control image of straphanger entrance and exiting turnstiles, won’t even be wired to recordng devices until some time next month

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

Full story: critic fright MTA’s tech, safety fail: $21.3M will be wasted on metro photographic camera that don’t even record.