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A knife-wielding lunatic allegedly stabbed a man in the back at a Manhattan subway station for accidentally bumping into him on the staircase – only to be freed without bail Tuesday.
Tâi-lô. Tâi-pak Tāi-tsiòng Tsia̍t-ūn Hē-thóng. Taipei Metro[ I ] (also known as Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) [ 3 ] and branded as Metro Taipei) [ 4 ] is a rapid transit system operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation serving the capital Taipei and New Taipei City in Taiwan. It was the first rapid transit system to be built ...
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as " the T ") [3][4] is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The MBTA transit network includes the MBTA subway with three metro lines (the Blue, Orange, and Red lines), two light ...
In April 1986, the New York City Transit Authority began to study the possibility of eliminating sections of 11 subway lines because of low ridership. The segments are primarily located in low-income neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, with a total of 79 stations, and 45 miles of track, for a total of 6.5 percent of the system.
A train of new equipment on the recently upgraded Franklin Line in 1980. Several major disruptions occurred in the mid-1980s. On January 20, 1984, a fire destroyed the wooden approach trestles to the North Station drawbridges. The four northside lines used temporary terminals with rapid transit connections while the trestles were rebuilt. [37]
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With two-person train operation, an on-board train guard at the rear of the train is responsible for opening and closing the subway car doors and making sure no one is trapped in a door as the train leaves a station. From the subway's inception in 1954 to 1991, the train guard notified patrons that the subway car doors were closing with two ...
Or watching a train enthusiast walk by, staring at it like it fell from Mars. “People are fascinated by them,” Faulds said. “It’s fun to make people happy.”