Gov. Kathy Hochul focused on subway safety in her State of the State address Tuesday, proposing more police on the subways after already surging over 1,200 state law enforcement personnel into the system last March.

“I want to see more uniformed officers not just on the platforms, but more importantly on every single train overnight 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for the next six months,” Hochul said.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch thanked the governor for some of the proposals but also said they didn’t go far enough.

“This proposal will allow us to put more officers on the trains, including two officers on every overnight train. But adding more officers to patrol our trains can only do so much if we do not address the root of the issue: surging recidivism,” Tisch said in a statement in part.

The governor is also addressing the mental health crisis underground by proposing changes to involuntary commitment and outpatient treatment, which MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber says is just as much of a problem.

“The biggest impact to the sense of safety on the subway are the folks who are struggling with mental health in the public space. It’s true above ground and it’s especially true when you’re below ground in a confined space,” Lieber said.

Other proposals included installing platform barriers at 100 stations to prevent people from going on the tracks and adding a 15-second delay to emergency exits at 150 stations, which the MTA piloted at a handful of stations last year to prevent people from going through what Lieber calls a “superhighway of fare evasion.”

The governor also wants to install modern fare gates at 20 stations by the end of this year, and 20 more by the end of next year to prevent fare evasion and replace all subway lighting with LED bulbs by the end of 2025. The replacement of those bulbs was already underway and the new fare gates are part of 150 new gates proposed in the MTA’s 2025 to 2029 capital plan. The governor is now just putting a timeline on them.

“And the shameless fare evaders will finally be stopped with modernized gates. This will not only make the subway less chaotic, it will help strengthen the financial footing of the MTA,” Hochul said.

The MTA’s capital plan was vetoed by legislative leaders because it has a $33 billion funding gap, but the governor doubled down on her support.

“We must end decades of failure to make the hard but necessary investments in this critical infrastructure. If we come up short, the future of our transit system and the economic strength of our state could be jeopardized.”

The governor said in the State of the State proposal book that funding will come from new revenue sources to be agreed upon during budget negotiations this spring, and cost efficiencies will be achieved by the MTA.