The Transit Authority would be railroading tourists if it banned all photography in the subways for security reasons, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
Responding to a TA proposal to outlaw snapping pictures in the subway system as a security precaution, the mayor said that nixing any picture-taking on and around the rails isn’t needed.
“If somebody’s there with a high-powered camera at the front of the train trying to photograph switches and signal boxes, maybe there is something going on,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show.
“If there are some tourists and they want to have a picture of each other on the subway train, c’mon, get real!”