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Number of vehicles. 2,429 commuter rail cars. 6,418 subway cars. 61 SIR cars. 5,725 buses [1] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.
MTA Bus & NYCT Nova Bus LFS-A TL62102A 3rd Generation Articulated 2010 62 ft (19 m) 1200–1289 (90 buses) 80 retiring: Diesel: NYCT Nova Bus LFS TL40102A 3rd Generation: 2011 40 ft (12 m) 8000–8089 (90 buses) 89 Orion Bus Industries Orion VII 07.501 EPA10 3rd Generation 7000–7089 (90 buses) 88 New Flyer XD40 Xcelsior: 4810–4899 (90 buses ...
A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers. In December 2005, the TWU Local 100 ...
The original livery for NYC Transit Authority buses in the 1950s. Interior view of one of the buses from 1958 Employees of the New York City Transit Authority assigned to the New York City Subway and in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx are members of the Transport Workers Union of America Local 100, with Queens and Staten Island bus personnel ...
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.
Roger Toussaint. Roger Toussaint is an American worker who led the December 20th, 2005 New York City transit strike which lasted three days and shut down bus and subway service in the city. Toussaint was the president of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 in New York City (NYC) from January 2001 through December 2009.
Evolution of New York City subways: An illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867–1997. New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9637492-8-4. Kramer, Frederick A. Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Cudahy, Brian J.
MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast Announces Retirement - New York City, NY - His retirement announcement comes a day after the opening of the Second Avenue subway.