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Report: MTA May Cut Subway Safety Workers

NEW YORK (AP) ― Subway workers assigned to guide straphangers to safety in emergencies might disappear next year.

The Daily News reports that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's proposed 2008 budget would cut the workers, saving about $6.5 million.

There are about 100 of the safety workers, assigned to 20 key stations. They were added after the London subway bombings in 2005.

MTA officials say changes to subway exit doors have made those jobs unnecessary.

New York City Transit spokesman Charles Seaton points to "panic bars" on subway station exit doors, which passengers can push open themselves. Token booth clerks used to have to open the gates.

But City Councilman Peter Vallone says the safety workers are still needed.

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