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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA or San Francisco MTA) is an agency created by consolidation of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission.
The MTA estimated that eliminating skip-stop service only added 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 minutes of travel time for passengers at the northernmost stations at 242nd Street and 238th Street, while many passengers would see trains frequencies double, resulting in decreased overall travel time because of less time waiting for trains. [29]
The elimination of midday M service to Brooklyn was part of a larger plan to reduce spending in order to avert a fare increase, which Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudy Giuliani had pressured the MTA to avoid. Only 4,200 riders used M service to Brooklyn during middays, with fewer than 20 passengers per car, or 80 passengers per train (the M ...
Traffic & Transit Tap-To-Ride MTA Passengers Will Get Unlimited Passes MTA leaders approved a pilot that gives OMNY tap-to-pay users the equivalent of a $33 weekly unlimited pass if they take more ...
The Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station is the northern terminal station of the New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.Located at the intersection of 242nd Street and Broadway in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, it is served by the 1 train at all times.
After the New York State Legislature gave the MTA funding for capital improvements in 1993, the MTA used some of these funds to renovate the Park Place station. [22] Between April 3 and October 1, 1999, this station was closed for escalator replacement and a station rehabilitation.
The 4 Lexington Avenue Express [3] is a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway.Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored forest green since it uses the IRT Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan.
The MTA hired Andy Byford as the president of the New York City Transit Authority in November 2017. [77] [78] Previously CEO at the Toronto Transit Commission, Byford assumed his new position in January 2018. MTA leadership expected that Byford would be able to devise solutions to fix the NYCTA's reliability issues, particularly those of the ...