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The 2 Seventh Avenue Express [3] is a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway.Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored red since it uses the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line through most of Manhattan.
The Myrtle Avenue–Chambers Street Line (later the 10, then the M train) used the Myrtle Viaduct (pictured) along its route between Manhattan and Middle Village. Until 1914, the only service on the Myrtle Avenue Line east of Grand Avenue was a local service between Park Row (via the Brooklyn Bridge) and Middle Village (numbered 11 in 1924). [6]
[158] [159] It opened for NYCT operations on March 29, 1998 as the Westside Depot, [145] [155] replacing the Walnut Depot and 100th Street Depot (the latter since reopened), [146] and was renamed after Michael J. Quill, one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America, on July 13, 2000. [160]
The ten GE cars were retired first in the summer of 2007. The Phase II R32s followed a year later, from March 2008 until October 13, 2008. A handful of Phase I R32s were retired from early 2009 until November 2009, when it was decided to retire the NYCT R44s instead.
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[citation needed] As of January 2024, the R46s are the oldest active subway cars, and the second oldest active rolling stock within the NYCT system, at 49 years old, behind the R44s still in operation on the Staten Island Railway. On May 2, 2014, set 5742–5745 was involved in a derailment due to track defects while running on the F. [24]
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Contactless trial on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, 2007. Subway tokens had been used as the MTA subway and bus systems' form of fare payment since the 1950s. MetroCards made by Cubic Transportation Systems started to replace the tokens in 1992; the MetroCards used magnetic stripes to encode the fare payment.