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In December 2005, the TWU Local 100 called a strike in New York City. Negotiations for a new contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) broke down over retirement, pension, and wage increases. The strike began at 3:00 a.m. EST on December 20. Most New York City Transit Authority and MTA Bus Company personnel observed the strike, effectively halting all service on the subway ...
Essential Workers Can Get Free Car Rides In Subway Shutdown: MTA - New York City, NY - If a trip takes more than 80 minutes, requires two transfers or more than a half-mile walk, the MTA will pay ...
VIA was created in 1977 when the citizens of Bexar County voted in favor of a one-half cent sales tax to fund the service. Subsequently, VIA purchased transit assets from the City of San Antonio and began operations in March 1978, taking its name from the Latin word for "road". In 2004, city voters in San Antonio approved the formation of the Advanced Transportation District. This quarter-cent ...
SmarTrip is a contactless stored-value smart card payment system managed by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) uses a compatible payment system called CharmCard. A reciprocity agreement between the MTA and WMATA allows either card to be used for travel on any of the participating transit systems in the Baltimore-Washington ...
Elco, the captain of the fire department's Station 2, said he responded to fires on his own time, including during lunch breaks, since starting his job with the LIRR in 2015. "They’re coming ...
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, officially stylized as CapMetro, is a public transportation provider located in Austin, Texas. It operates bus, paratransit services and a hybrid rail system known as CapMetro Rail in Austin and several suburbs in Travis and Williamson counties. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 25,229,400, or about 81,200 per weekday as of the first ...
The New York City Subway system has, for the most part, used block signaling since its 1904 opening. As of May 2014, the system consists of about 14,850 signal blocks, 3,538 mainline switches, 183 major track junctions, 10,104 automatic train stops, and 339,191 signal relays. [2] Trains used to be controlled by signal towers at interlockings, but this was eventually phased out in favor of ...
The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. [7] [8] Platforms at IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line stations between 103rd Street and 238th Street, including those at 231st Street, were lengthened to 514 feet (157 m) between 1946 and 1948, allowing full ten-car express trains to stop at these stations. [6] A contract for the platform extensions at 231st Street and five ...