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The R68 is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 425 cars built by the Westinghouse-Amrail Company (aka Francorail ), a joint venture of Westinghouse, ANF Industrie, Jeumont Schneider, and Alsthom. The cars were built in France from 1986 to 1988 and shipped through New York Harbor. Of the cars in the fleet, 416 are arranged ...
New York City Subway map. 2013 edition of the official Hertz-style subway map; note that this may not reflect temporary changes in service. Many transit maps for the New York City Subway have been designed since the subway's inception in 1904. Because the subway was originally built by three separate companies, an official map for all subway ...
John Nathan Lieber. ( 1961-09-19) September 19, 1961 (age 62) Education. Harvard University ( BA) New York University ( JD) John Nathan " Janno " Lieber (born September 19, 1961) [1] is the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. He was appointed acting chair and CEO in July 2021 and confirmed permanently in January ...
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R142A is the second order of new technology cars (NTTs) for the A Division of the New York City Subway. [8] These cars were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in the U.S. at Yonkers, New York and Lincoln, Nebraska, and in Japan at Kobe, Hyōgo. They replaced the Redbird trains, including the R26, R28 ...
In other MTA news, the Post reports that the board is looking to raise fares on LIRR and Metro-North riders, with hikes of 8.19 percent to 9.31 percent. Find out what's happening in Bayside ...
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. Under the Sidewalks of New York: The ...
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R14 was a New York City Subway car model built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1949. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the A Division's R12s and look exactly the same, differing only in floor patterns. A total of 150 cars were built, arranged as single units.
The subway system's on-time performance rose significantly to 76.4 percent in February from just 61.7 percent in the same month last year, said Sally Librera, New York City Transit's senior vice ...