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4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R14 was a New York City Subway car model built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1949. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the A Division's R12s and look exactly the same, differing only in floor patterns. A total of 150 cars were built, arranged as single units.
NEW YORK CITY — A long-sought safety feature is coming to New York City's subway platforms, the MTA's top honcho announced. Subway platform doors will be tested at three stations, MTA chair and ...
New York City Transit, the MTA branch that runs the buses, is working to redesign the bus routes in all five boroughs. City officials are also making efforts to improve bus speeds 25 percent by 2020.
The seven-day period would begin at 12 a.m. on Monday and runs through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, MTA officials said. To get the free, unlimited rides once having paid $33 in fares, the same ...
Some riders who used the OMNY contactless payment system Monday morning were charged $2.90 because of a technical glitch caused by a vendor's software test, according to the MTA's Twitter account.
The R was originally the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation 's 2 service, running along the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn then traveling through the Montague Street Tunnel to Manhattan, then running local on the BMT Broadway Line. The 2 became the RR in 1961. The RR ran local along the BMT Astoria Line in Queens, terminating at ...
A signal in the Flushing–Main Street station. Most trains on the New York City Subway are manually operated. As of 2022, the system currently uses automatic block signaling, with fixed wayside signals and automatic train stops. Many portions of the signaling system were installed between the 1930s and 1960s.
63rd Street Tunnel. / 40.76000°N 73.95500°W / 40.76000; -73.95500. The 63rd Street Tunnel is a double-deck subway and railroad tunnel under the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens in New York City. Opened in 1989, it is the newest of the East River tunnels, as well as the newest rail river crossing in the New York ...