NYC is testing powerful UV light to kill the coronavirus on subways and buses
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched its pilot to use to disinfect New York City’s subways and buses. MTA is planning to deploy 150 mobile devices to clean subways, buses, and subway stations as part of the first phase of the pilot. The second phase will focus on MetroNorth and Long Island Rail Road commuter trains.
The MTA says it will spend $1 million on the project (Source: The New York Times). The effort is part of a partnership between the MTA and Columbia University, which theorizes that UV light can be used to kill diseases in the transit system. The MTA is using the devices during its nightly cleaning procedures, for which it took the unprecedented step of shutting down the entire subway system for four hours every evening.
Source: The Verge