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The transportation system of New York City is a network of complex infrastructural systems. New York City, being the most populous city in the United States, has a transportation system which includes one of the largest and busiest subway systems in the world; the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel; and an aerial tramway.
A signal in the Flushing–Main Street station. Most trains on the New York City Subway are manually operated. As of 2022, the system currently uses automatic block signaling, with fixed wayside signals and automatic train stops. Many portions of the signaling system were installed between the 1930s and 1960s.
The Surface Transportation Corporation was the bus -operating subsidiary of the Third Avenue Railway in New York City which operated under that name following the conversion of the streetcar lines in Manhattan and the Bronx to bus service between March 1941 and August 1948. [1] On December 17, 1956, the corporation was bought by Fifth Avenue ...
A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers. In December 2005, the TWU Local 100 ...
Greg Keller chose Shonen Knife's "Cycling Is Fun" because "I ride my bike to work, never take the s----y MTA." (The song isn't on the playlist because we couldn’t find it on Spotify, but you can ...
Approximately 300. Deaths. 0. Injured. 25. On January 4, 2024, a New York City Subway train derailed causing at least 26 people, mostly passengers, to suffer minor injuries. The incident happened when the first car of a 1 train collided with a disabled train that had been vandalized, both consisting of R62As, just north of the 96th Street ...
About 1.75 million people rode the local buses on an average weekday in April, down 4.2 percent from the same month last year, MTA figures show. But the bus system ran 97.1 percent of all its ...
e. New York City Subway nomenclature is the terminology used in the New York City Subway system as derived from railroading practice, historical origins of the system, and engineering, publicity, and legal usage. Important terms include lines, or individual sections of subway, like the BMT Brighton Line; services, like the B, which is a single ...