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An MTA cease and desist letter told an Erie County clerk to stop using their slogan to encourage reporting undocumented New Yorkers to ICE.
[41] [86] It is currently owned by New York City and leased to MTA Bus Company, [3] [27] [86] sold by Liberty Lines on January 3, 2005, for $10.5 million. [4] [43] [85] [90] The depot consists of an administration building, a shop for bus maintenance and repairs, and an outdoor parking lot used for storing 80 express buses.
In 2017, MTA introduced a new mobile ticketing app called CharmPass, which allows passengers to pay fares on all MTA services using mobile devices. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] As of February 2023 [update] , the MTA is procuring modern replacements for CharmCard and CharmPass, which are "quickly reaching end-of-life".
The MTA started planning for a far west side service in 2013, in conjunction with the 7 train's extension to 34 Street - Hudson Yards. [5] It originally was planned to go from 59th Street to Spring Street, via the West Side Highway until 14th Street, and Washington / Greenwich Streets south of there.
The New York City Subway system differs from other railroad chaining systems in that it uses the engineer's chain of 100 feet (30.48 m) rather than the surveyor's chain of 66 feet (20.12 m). Chaining is used in the New York City Subway system in conjunction with train radios, in order to ascertain a train's location on a given line. [33]
New York City Transit Authority: Garage: Manhattanville Depot (M5) Michael J. Quill Depot (M55) Vehicle: Orion VII NG HEV (M5 only) New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40 (M5 only) Nova Bus LFS HEV New Flyer Xcelsior XD40 (M55 only) New Flyer Xcelsior XE40 (M55 only) Began service: 1864 (train) 1893 (streetcar) 1936 (M5 bus) 2017 (M55 bus) Route; Locale ...
The 2005 New York City transit strike actually began on December 19, 2005, at two private bus companies (Jamaica Buses Incorporated and Triboro Coach Corporation) [7] providing public transportation whose employees were also members of TWU Local 100.
In 1966, the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) called a strike action in New York City after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority (TA). It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910, 1916, and 1919 against the then-private transit ...