The MTA is investigating whether a subway operator allowed multiple minors to try their hand at driving a train, after videos to that effect circulated on social media last week.
Two videos, posted to two separate social media accounts and reviewed by the Daily News, each show a young man at the helm of two different R160 train cars, operating aboveground in broad daylight.
In each video, the same train operator can be seen standing alongside the young men as they pilot the train.
“Go, go, go, go, it’s green,” the transit worker says to one boy as he approaches an empty platform at 111th St. on the J train in Richmond Hill, Queens. The boy then proceeds to press a button honking the train’s horn.
It’s unclear when the videos were taken. Sources told the Daily News that transit offici