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The NYCTA, a public authority presided over by New York City, was created in 1953 to take over subway, bus, and streetcar operations from the city. [14] In 1968 the state-level MTA took control of the NYCTA, and in 1970 the city entered the New York City fiscal crisis. It closed many elevated subway lines that became too expensive to maintain.
On October 20, 1955, the NYCTA told the Board of Estimate that it was rescinding its request for $4,991,000 to build the conveyor. The plan was canceled due to its high cost. [7] [39] In 1954, NYCTA created a design concept to reconfiguring the shuttle onto a tangent alignment under 42nd Street.
The route's cost recovery ratio of 29 percent was well below New York City Transit's guideline of 50 percent. The NYCTA considered extending the Q85 along the Q86's route, running eastward from its terminal at Huxley Street and 147th Avenue to Francis Lewis Boulevard, and then northbound along the Q86 route to Rosedale station.
The organization within Con Edison responsible for the system's operation, known as Steam Operations, provides steam service to over 1,700 commercial and residential customers in Manhattan from Battery Park to 96th Street uptown on the west side, and 89th Street on the east side of Manhattan.
The R188 is a class of new technology (NTT) New York City Subway cars built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the A Division.The fleet entered service in 2013, displacing the 1980s-era R62A cars that operated on the 7 and <7> services, in conjunction with the automation of the IRT Flushing Line's signal system with communications-based train control (CBTC).
There are four track geometry cars on the New York City Subway that measure the system's track geometry to ensure that safe train operation is maintained. The cars are numbered TGC1–TGC4. TGC1 was ordered under contract R59 in 1984 for $1.4 million, [46] TGC2 was ordered under contract R63 and cost $2.5 million,.
[citation needed] As of January 2024, the R46s are the oldest active subway cars, and the second oldest active rolling stock within the NYCT system, at 49 years old, behind the R44s still in operation on the Staten Island Railway. On May 2, 2014, set 5742–5745 was involved in a derailment due to track defects while running on the F. [24]
A concept of operations (abbreviated CONOPS, CONOPs, [1] or ConOps [2]) is a document describing the characteristics of a proposed system from the viewpoint of an individual who will use that system. Examples include business requirements specification or stakeholder requirements specification (StRS) .