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As of May 2021, there are 138.4 miles (222.7 km) of bus lanes within New York City (with an additional 23 miles of high occupancy vehicle lanes on highways which also accommodate buses). The lanes are generally used to speed up MTA bus routes on the city's public transport system, which would be otherwise held up by traffic congestion.
Membership (US records; ×1000) [1] Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100, which ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R16 was a New York City Subway car model built by the American Car and Foundry Company from 1954 to 1955 for the IND / BMT B Division. A total of 200 cars were built, arranged as single units. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE ...
While the city of New York is barred from charging its own commuter tax, the state of New York does impose an income tax on non-residents that work in the state. In 2009, New York enacted the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax, a 0.34% levy on payrolls and self-employment earnings in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester ...
On January 29, it was reported that the MTA expects to spend $497 million in federal economic stimulus money to complete the Fulton Street Transit Center in Lower Manhattan. The money would bring ...
When the New York City Transit Authority was created in July 1953, the fare was raised to 15 cents (equivalent to $1.71 in 2023) and a token was issued. [89] In 1970 the fare was raised to 30 cents. [90] This token is 23mm in diameter with a Y cut out, and is known as the "Large Y Cutout".
SmartLink is a RFID-enabled credit card-sized smartcard that is the primary fare payment method on the PATH transit system in Newark and Hudson County in New Jersey and Manhattan in New York City. It was designed to replace PATH's paper-based farecard, QuickCard, and there was plans to expand its usage throughout most transit agencies in the ...
The 1 Broadway–Seventh Avenue Local [3] is a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored red, since it uses the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line for its entire route. The 1 operates at all times, making all stops between Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street in Riverdale, Bronx ...