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When the New York City Transit Authority was created in July 1953, the fare was raised to 15 cents (equivalent to $1.71 in 2023) and a token was issued. [102] In 1970 the fare was raised to 30 cents. [103] This token is 23mm in diameter with a Y cut out, and is known as the "Large Y Cutout".
This service change would have been implemented in October 1991, pending approval from the MTA board. [31] The north side of the Manhattan Bridge closed on middays and weekends from April 30, 1995, until November 12, 1995, [32] during which B trains ran only between Pacific Street and Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, running local on the BMT ...
The MTA also agreed to extend the G to Forest Hills–71st Avenue during evenings and weekends (when the V was not running), and run more trains on that route. There was a four-hour period where the G, R , and V, as well as the Queens Boulevard line's express services, the E and the F, were all running at once since the V stopped running at ...
September 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Nike, struggling from rising competition and its own strategy mistakes, is making a major shakeup. The athletic giant announced ...
The MTA purchased and took over subway, elevated, streetcar, and bus operations from the Boston Elevated Railway in 1947. [15] In the 1950s, the MTA ran new subway extensions, while the last two streetcar lines running into the Pleasant Street Portal of the Tremont Street Subway were substituted with buses in 1953 and 1962. [16]
The Bronx remnant of the IRT Third Avenue Line closed in 1973, to be provisionally replaced by a new subway under the Metro-North Railroad tracks on Park Avenue, one block to the west. The single-tracked Culver Shuttle between Ditmas Avenue and Ninth Avenue , once a three-tracked line, closed on May 11, 1975.
Top speed. 78–100 km/h (48–62 mph) (service) 90–100 km/h (56–62 mph) (design) MRT network map. The Mass Rapid Transit system, locally known by the initialism MRT, is a rapid transit system in Singapore and the island country's principal mode of railway transportation. The system commenced operations in November 1987 after two decades of ...
Washington Metro rolling stock. The rolling stock of the Washington Metro system consists of 1,242 75-foot (22.86 m) cars that were acquired across seven orders. All cars operate as married pairs (consecutively numbered even-odd), with systems shared across the pair. The 7000-series cars, the system's newest, have an operator's cab in only one ...