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By 2017, only 65% of weekday trains reached their destinations on time, the lowest rate since a transit crisis in the 1970s. To a lesser extent, New York City buses operated by the MTA were also affected. Both the subway and the buses are run by the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), a subsidiary of the MTA.
Darius McCollum (born March 28, 1965 [1]) is an American man primarily known for posing as a New York City Subway motorman, bus driver, and subway train operator due to his fixation with trains and public transport.
The M21 bus route constitutes a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City. The M21 operates between the West Village and the Lower East Side , serving as a Houston Street crosstown. The M9 and M21 are operated by the New York City Transit Authority, and based out of the Michael J. Quill Depot.
NEW YORK, NY — The MTA and New York City reached a deal in the midst of a pandemic to redevelop the transit authority's former Madison Avenue headquarters and generate $1 billion for the MTA ...
By the 1990s, there was demand for a direct rail link between Midtown Manhattan and John F. Kennedy International Airport. [7] In 1990, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) proposed a $1.6 billion rail link to LaGuardia and JFK airports, which would be developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) and funded jointly by agencies in the federal, state, and city ...
The R17s were numbered 6500–6899. They were one of three car classes purchased in the mid-1950s by the New York City Transit Authority to replace much of the pre-World War II IRT High-Voltage (Hi-V) rolling stock, which included the Gibbs cars, the Deck Roofs, and the Hedley Hi-V cars.
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]
The 9 Broadway–Seventh Avenue Local [1] was a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway.Its route emblem, or "bullet", was colored red, since it used the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line for its entire route.