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In March 2022, the MTA Board voted to add CBTC equipment to another 128 five-car units as part of the first option order. [45]: 47 That October, the MTA Board voted to exercise the first option order for 640 cars [5] [6] at a cost of US $1.7 billion. [49] [50] All cars in the first option order would be R211A cars.
Metro-North Railroad (reporting mark MNCW), [8] trading as MTA Metro-North Railroad, is a suburban commuter rail service operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public authority of the U.S. state of New York.
On December 17, 2009, the MTA board voted to cut New York City Transit bus and subway citywide in order to reduce the MTA's budget deficit of $900 million. [26] As part of the cuts, Saturday Q79 service was to be discontinued. [27] On January 22, 2010, the MTA announced that it modified its plan to cut transit service to reduce customer impact.
Contactless trial on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, 2007. Subway tokens had been used as the MTA subway and bus systems' form of fare payment since the 1950s. MetroCards made by Cubic Transportation Systems started to replace the tokens in 1992; the MetroCards used magnetic stripes to encode the fare payment.
On December 1, 2022, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus network. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] As part of the redesign, B82 local service south of Bay 37th Street would be discontinued; the westbound B82 local would run on Shore Parkway instead of Cropsey Avenue between Bay Parkway and 26th Avenue.
Public usage of the line names varies widely, although the MTA's public usage of trunk names has increased since 2012, especially on Fastrack signs. Internally, the MTA also uses the names, both for legal reasons and to describe lines, services and locations without ambiguity. Although the three major subway systems are now unified, the terms ...
Known informally as "Charlie on the MTA", the song's lyrics tell an absurd tale of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system, which was then known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
MTA unlimited ride passes (also known as "GO-passes") also cover the fare. [10] In 2006, three shorter, distinctively painted buses, 30-foot Opus buses were purchased and are used exclusively by the Mondawmin shuttle. [11] The Opus buses are the only non 40- and 60-foot buses in MTA's fleet; held at Northwest (4) garage.