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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA or San Francisco MTA) is an agency created by consolidation of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission.
They had been given to him by other MTA employees who had given him their shifts, but he pleaded guilty to attempting to steal a locomotive and was sentenced to three years in prison. [10] Although he was released from Sing Sing in 2006, he was reimprisoned for breaking parole after he was found in possession of railroad property. [ 11 ]
The R188 is a class of new technology (NTT) New York City Subway cars built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the A Division.The fleet entered service in 2013, displacing the 1980s-era R62A cars that operated on the 7 and <7> services, in conjunction with the automation of the IRT Flushing Line's signal system with communications-based train control (CBTC).
A central portion was closed in the late 1990s and is now occupied by a police facility, employee space, and offices. [30] The south portion was also previously closed and used as storage space, but was reopened on February 28, 2019 in preparation for the 14th Street Tunnel shutdown in April 2019.
The elimination of midday M service to Brooklyn was part of a larger plan to reduce spending in order to avert a fare increase, which Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudy Giuliani had pressured the MTA to avoid. Only 4,200 riders used M service to Brooklyn during middays, with fewer than 20 passengers per car, or 80 passengers per train (the M ...
The subway system's operator, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), allocated funding for the installation of reversible escalators in 1975 [36] as part of the MTA's six-year capital plan. [37] The New York City Department of City Planning proposed renovating the Queensboro Plaza station in 1979 as part of a $170 million project.
In 2010, the MTA proposed mid-life technological upgrades for the R68As, including LED destination signs and automated announcements. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] These upgrades were not implemented. In June 2023, the MTA released a document advertising an RFP for the R262 and R268 models, the latter of which is likely to replace the R68 and R68A.
#1201 (built 1981) was one of ultimately 4,877 Rapid Transit Series buses used by the MTA Regional Bus Operations companies from 1981 to 1999. These buses all had wheelchair lifts, making MTA the first agency in the United States to have a fully accessible bus fleet. [30] #8928 (built 1969) was one of 133 buses that replaced an earlier, 1956 fleet.