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In addition, the toll rates for drivers without New York Customer Service Center E-ZPass toll transponders would be 50 percent more than the NYCSC E-ZPass rates. [278] For example, passenger vehicles without NYCSC E-ZPass, such as those paying with New Jersey E-ZPass or tolls by mail, would be charged $22.50. [280]
The New York–Dublin Portal (also simply known as The Portal) was an interactive installation created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys to allow people in New York City and Dublin to interact with each other using two 24-hour live streaming video screens (without audio).
The MBTA did experiment with "Night Owl" substitute bus service from 2001 to 2005, but abandoned it because of insufficient ridership, citing a $7.53 per rider cost to keep the service open, five times the cost per passenger of an average bus route. [84]
The first elevated railway and the first rapid transit line in Boston were built three years before the first underground line of the New York City Subway, but 34 years after the first London Underground lines, and long after the first elevated railway in New York City. [6]
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [77] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.
6 NYC Subway Lines Will See Months-Long Service Cuts, MTA Says - New York City, NY - Straphangers will see fewer rush hour trains and uptown commute times drag longer along several lines starting ...
BSC operated from the 35th and 36th floors of the International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York during World War II. British Security Co-ordination (BSC) was a covert organisation set up in New York City by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in May 1940 upon the authorisation of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City, New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. [a] Its operator is the New York City Transit Authority, which is itself controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.