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The Wakefield–241st Street station (signed as 241st Street) is a terminal station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 241st Street and White Plains Road in the Wakefield neighborhood of the Bronx. [3]
The R142As, along with the R142s, are the first New York City Subway cars to feature recorded announcements. In 2010–2016, 380 cars (7211–7590) were retrofitted with communications-based train control (CBTC) for the automation of the Flushing Line and became part of the R188 fleet, leaving 220 cars (7591–7810) in the R142A fleet.
New York Times columnist Randy Kennedy wrote that four months after it opened, the service was operating at only 49% of capacity. However, ridership had "increased 30 percent since it began, and every new V rider, as lonely as he or she might be, relieves crowding on the E." [ 9 ] The Straphangers Campaign and Queens Civic Congress organized ...
The IRT Jerome Avenue Line, also unofficially known as IRT Woodlawn Line, is an A Division New York City Subway line mostly along Jerome Avenue in the Bronx.Originally an Interborough Rapid Transit Company-operated route, it was built as part of the Dual Contracts expansion and opened in 1917 and 1918.
Conversely, a poll of New York City residents found that close to two-thirds of respondents were against the congestion toll. [173] The MTA board gave its final approval to the plan at the end of March 2024, [174] making New York City the first locality in the United States to approve the creation of a congestion-pricing zone. [175]
The 1, 3, 7, C, E, B, D, F, M, J, Z, L, Q, R, W, and F and R shuttles are running normally, with no active alerts. 4 trains are serving all stations but service is limited due to storm damage and ...
Chaining zero is a fixed point from which the chaining is measured on a particular chaining line.A chaining number of, for example, 243 at a specific line location (called a chaining station) identifies that the location is the length of 243 100-foot chains (24,300 feet or 4.60 miles or 7.41 kilometres) from chaining zero, usually measured along the center line of the railroad.
In April 1993, the New York State Legislature agreed to give the MTA $9.6 billion for capital improvements. Some of the funds would be used to renovate nearly one hundred New York City Subway stations, [ 61 ] [ 62 ] including Broadway–Lafayette Street.