Don't Ride Your Hoverboard at Brewster or Southeast Station

Hoverboards will not be allowed on Metropolitan Transportation Authority property, trains or buses.

That announcement was made Jan. 27 by the MTA in promoting its new advertising campaign: “Hoverboards Not Allowed.”

The transportation agency’s safety rules have long prohibited personal wheeled devices such as skateboards, skates or scooters in train stations.

MTA rules also prohibit people from possessing hazardous or flammable materials in the public transit system.

Hoverboards contain lithium-ion batteries which have, under certain conditions, posed a fire and explosion risk.

MTA Chief Safety Officer David Mayer said the safety of transit authority’s customers and employees is a major concern.

“For obvious reasons, it is not safe to use hoverboards, skateboards or other personal wheeled vehicles on station platforms,” he said. “We’re equally concerned about the safety risk of bringing devices that pose fire hazards into the confined spaces inside trains and buses.”

The MTA Police Department will enforce the rule on trains and the NYPD will enforce the rule on city subways and buses.

Hoverboards are also banned on Amtrak, regional railroads and most U.S. airlines.

Photo credit: Metropolitan Transportation Authority.