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In 2017, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) due to ongoing reliability and crowding problems with mass transit in New York City.
In 2017, New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA due to various incidents involving the NYCTA's subway and bus systems. At the time, only 65 percent of weekday trains reached their destinations on time, the lowest rate since a transit crisis in the 1970s.
The state of emergency ended on June 30, 2021, after previously being renewed 49 times. As of October 2021, on-time performance across all routes is at 80.6 percent.
Southbound 6 trains are delayed while emergency teams respond to someone who was struck by a train at 77 St. — NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) December 19, 2023. According to the MTA, 6 trains are ...
NEW YORK CITY — The MTA suspended service on two subways lines and warned New Yorkers to expect delays on two others because of staffing issues linked to the surge of COVID-19 cases, officials said.
The NYCTA, a public authority presided over by New York City, was created in 1953 to take over subway, bus, and streetcar operations from the city. In 1968 the state-level MTA took control of the NYCTA, and in 1970 the city entered the New York City fiscal crisis .
Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend because of coronavirus. Here's what that means.
On the IND Rockaway Line, a single track connects the branches of the wye at Hammels, south of Broad Channel, this was used previously for round-robin shuttle service and emergency H service. Unused center tracks. Many of the New York City Subway's lines have express tracks, unused in revenue service and generally only used for re-routes.
QUEENS, NY — F train service was suspended between Forest Hills and Jamaica late Tuesday night after a person was struck by a train at the Jamaica-179 Street station, NYCT Subway said.
As of 2017, some of the oldest block signals in the system were 80 years old, and they broke down frequently, causing more delays and prompting the MTA to declare a state of emergency for the subway in 2017. An MTA investigation found that between December 2017 and January 2018, broken signals caused 11,555 train delays.