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The leader of MTA's construction department said in 2022 that it was not feasible to install air conditioning in most older stations. [65] This is both because of the high power requirements for the air-cooling systems and because the presence of ventilation grates in older stations would reduce the efficiency of an air conditioning system.
The air conditioned cars cost $40,000 more than the non-air conditioned cars. [6] From this point on, the New York City Transit Authority began adopting air conditioning as standard equipment on all new cars, and older model cars were retrofitted with AC units to make life much more bearable throughout the subway system. The Stone-Safety Air ...
The GM New Look bus is a municipal transit bus that was introduced in 1959 by the Truck and Coach Division of General Motors to replace the company's previous coach, retroactively known as the GM "old-look" transit bus. Also commonly known by the nickname "Fishbowl" (for its original six-piece rounded windshield, later replaced by a two-piece ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that the MTA will deploy 60 zero-emission buses to city communities with poor air quality and high asthma rates. (NY Governor's Office) NEW YORK CITY — A fleet ...
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — It's the middle of summer and the MTA still hasn't flipped the switch on the air conditioning at its brand-new $4.5 billion subway stations, an MTA spokesman told Patch.
Officials have said the double-decker driver ran through the red light about 7 p.m. at East 23rd Street and First Avenue and T-boned an MTA bus. The crash left 67 people injured and 32 ...
The MTA has installed retail spaces within paid areas in selected stations, including the station concourses of the Times Square–Port Authority complex, the 59th Street–Columbus Circle station, and the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station. [69] In the 1980s, the MTA operated around 350 retail spaces in the subway system. [69]
The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of electric multiple unit rolling stock. As of November 2016, the New York City Subway has 6418 cars on the roster. The system maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division (numbered) routes, the other for the B Division (lettered) routes.