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  2. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Wikipedia

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    The MTA purchased and took over subway, elevated, streetcar, and bus operations from the Boston Elevated Railway in 1947. [ 15 ] In the 1950s, the MTA ran new subway extensions, while the last two streetcar lines running into the Pleasant Street Portal of the Tremont Street Subway were substituted with buses in 1953 and 1962. [ 16 ]

  3. MBTA Commuter Rail - Wikipedia

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    Top speed. 79 mph (127 km/h) MBTA Commuter Rail system maps. The MBTA Commuter Rail (reporting mark MBTX) system serves as the commuter rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 's (MBTA's) transportation coverage of Greater Boston in the United States. Trains run over 394 mi (634 km) of track to 135 stations.

  4. History of Maryland Transit Administration - Wikipedia

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    The MTA took over the operations of the old Baltimore Transit Company on April 30, 1970. [2] A former no. 8 streetcar, the predecessor to bus Route 8, at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. This vehicle is now used to give rides to visitors. An 1896 open car in operation at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum

  5. History of the New York City Subway - Wikipedia

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    In April 1986, the New York City Transit Authority began to study the possibility of eliminating sections of 11 subway lines because of low ridership. The segments are primarily located in low-income neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, with a total of 79 stations, and 45 miles of track, for a total of 6.5 percent of the system.

  6. List of bus routes in Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    A 2018 XN60 (1108) on the B35 local at Flatbush’s Church Avenue/East 18th Street in January 2019, set to short-turn at McDonald Avenue. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Brooklyn, New York, United States; one minor route is privately operated under a city franchise.

  7. Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The tubes stretch 9,117 feet (2,779 m) from portal to portal, [4] making them the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnels in North America. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] At the time of its opening, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was the longest underwater vehicular tunnel in the US and the second-longest in the world, behind the Queensway tunnel under the ...

  8. Code page - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a single byte. (In some contexts these terms are used more precisely; see Character encoding § Terminology.)

  9. Doctor of Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; Latin: philosophiae doctor or doctor in philosophia) [ 1 ] is a terminal degree, that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the degree is most often abbreviated PhD (or, at times ...