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The MTA proposed mid-life technological upgrades for the R62s in 2010, including LED destination signs and automated announcements. [16] [17] In January 2019, the MTA announced that it would be replacing the R62/A fleets with the R262s, a new fleet that would be ordered as part of a future capital program. [18]: 25
The New York State Constitution, Art.X, sec. 5, provides that public benefit corporations may only be created by special act of the legislature. In City of Rye v. MTA, 24 N.Y.2d 627 (1969), the court of appeals explained that "The debates of the 1938 Convention indicate that the proliferation of public authorities after 1927 was the reason for the enactment of section 5 of article X....
Local service was extended to Third Avenue–138th Street on August 1, 1918. [8] On January 7, 1919, trains were extended from 138th Street to Hunts Point Avenue, [9] and to East 177th Street on May 30, 1920. [10] [11] Service between Hunts Point Avenue and East 177th Street was originally served by a shuttle service operating with elevated ...
WMATA provides rapid transit service under the Metrorail name, fixed-route bus service under the Metrobus brand, and paratransit service under the MetroAccess brand. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 239,741,800, or about 975,800 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2024.
New Technology Train (NTT) [1] [2] [3] is the collective term for the modern passenger fleet of the New York City Subway that has entered service since the turn of the 21st century. This includes the current R142 , R142A , R143 , R160 , R179 , R188 and R211 models, along with the planned R262 and R268 models.
When the New York City Subway began operation between 1904 and 1908, one of the main service patterns was the West Side Branch, which the modern 1 train uses. Trains ran from Lower Manhattan to the 242nd Street station near Van Cortlandt Park, using what is now the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, 42nd Street Shuttle, and IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
The G Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown [3] is an 11.4-mile-long (18.3 km) [4] rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway.Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored light green since it uses the IND Crosstown Line.
The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City. The present New York City Subway system inherited the systems of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). New York City has owned the IND ...