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Sixth Avenue Subway Will Be Opened to the Public at 12:01 A.M. Sunday, December 15, 1940. IND services immediately after the main part of the line opened. On December 15, 1940, local subway service began on Sixth Avenue from the West Fourth Street subway station to the 47th–50th Streets station with track connections to the IND 53rd Street Line.
The R10s were originally numbered 1803–1852 and 3000–3349. Cars 1803–1852 were renumbered 2950–2999 in 1970. As the first series of post-war subway cars, the R10s introduced many innovations. For the first time, the car body was of an all-welded low-alloy high tensile (LAHT) steel construction. This gave the body great strength
By the end of the 1980s, the Transit Police had effectively solved the problem of graffiti in the subway system. [4] The Transit Police also handled both quality of life crimes and violent crime in the subway system, with uniform officers, plain clothes anti-crime, as well as a detective squad in each district.
The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) had considered running express bus service to replace <7> express service, but decided against it as it would require hundreds of buses, which the NYCTA did not have. During the construction project, the NYCTA operated 25 trains per hour on the local track, three fewer than the 28 trains per hour ...
The Staten Island Railway (SIR) is a railroad line in the New York City borough of Staten Island.It is owned by the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (SIRTOA), a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and operated by the New York City Transit Authority Department of Subways.
The R40 was the second of four subway car types built in succession by the St. Louis Car Company for the NYCTA, in a period that spanned from 1965–1973. As the straight-ended R40As and the subsequent R42 order were nearly identical, they were often operated together in mixed-consists.
Cross-section of the first subway For the first IRT subway line, pictured at 59th Street – Columbus Circle, cut-and-cover was used as a form of construction. Recent projects, like the extension of the IRT Flushing Line (pictured) use tunnel boring machines to build the subway tunnels.
The New York City Subway is the largest subway system in the world when measured by number of stations (472), [34] and the eighth-largest [35] when measured by annual ridership (1.76 billion passenger trips in 2015). [36] It is the second-oldest subway system in the United States after the rapid transit system in Boston. In 2002, an average 4.8 ...