Bizarre yellow guardrails mid-subway platform bewilder NYC commuters — and MTA refuses to say if they improved safety

Add these yellowish elephants to nan needless billions spent by nan MTA.

The transit agency refuses to disclose nan results — aliases costs — of a aviator task that had yellowish information rails installed not connected nan edge, but successful nan middle, of nan level astatine 3 subway stations – portion of a wider inaugural to forestall falls, shoves and jumps connected nan tracks.

The agency had nan structures installed astatine 57th Street extremity connected nan F, nan Bedford Street extremity connected nan L, and nan Crescent Street extremity connected nan J, backmost successful 2023.

Two years later, it refuses to opportunity if they’re working, aliases what they costs taxpayers. The MTA has been stonewalling The Post’s questions for 3 weeks.

The inaugural came aft nan January 2022 death of Michelle Go, who was shoved onto nan tracks astatine Times Square.

“We’re looking astatine opportunities to make nan level safer, and this is 1 of them,” Jamie Torres-Springer, president of MTA Construction & Development, said astatine a March 2023 committee meeting.

“It’s an opportunity for customers to guidelines successful a location and consciousness safe. We’re evaluating really that useful – whether location are different versions of this that tin activity much effectively.”

But during unreserved hr this week astatine nan West 57th Street stop, The Post observed fewer commuters really utilizing nan building for its intended purpose.

One of nan rails was covered successful graffiti, while different was utilized arsenic a overgarment rack for a bum man, and later by a tired commuter arsenic a stretching and workout pole.

“Useless,” ripped New Yorker Charles Sprawls, 59, who noted that bum group besides regularly usage nan building to remainder against astatine night.

“I deliberation it’s weird,” added Eduardo Lopez, 28.

“On nan L train, they person them by nan separator and that makes sense, but this is simply a discarded of space.”

Over nan past year, nan MTA has been rolling retired different designs – much appropriately located astatine nan separator of nan platforms, though New Yorkers weren’t overmuch much impressed.

So acold astir 20 stations person gotten information barriers astatine nan separator of nan platforms, according to nan MTA, and Gov. Kathy Hochul said successful January she would supply nan backing to instal level separator barriers astatine much than 100 further stations by nan extremity of 2025.