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Three hundred new R179 subway cars made for the NYC subway by Canada-based company Bombardier Transportation — which the MTA had previously guessed would arrive by late 2018 or 2019 — are now ...
New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9637492-8-4. Kramer, Frederick A. Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Cudahy, Brian J. Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World, 2nd Revised Edition. Fordham University Press, New York, 1995.
Long Island Railroad. On Friday, The LIRR will have 10 extra trains and the 1:47 p.m. train from Hunterspoint Avenue to Montauk will depart up to 14 minutes later from Hampton Bays to Montauk ...
The Staten Island Railway received OMNY readers in December 2019, and rollout on the New York City Subway and on MTA buses was completed on December 31, 2020. The MTA began offering OMNY contactless cards on October 1, 2021, and introduced fare capping on February 28, 2022. Reduced-fare customers were allowed to use OMNY starting in June 2022 ...
Service improved through 2019, but the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in early 2020 further depleted the MTA's finances. Governor Cuomo also proposed implementing congestion pricing in New York City to fund the MTA, which was approved in 2021, but as of 2024, it was indefinitely postponed by his successor, Kathy Hochul.
In 2003, the LIRR and Metro-North started a pilot program in which passengers traveling within New York City were allowed to buy one-way tickets for $2.50. [63] The special reduced-fare CityTicket, proposed by the New York City Transit Riders Council, [63] was formally introduced in 2004. [64]
The B63 is a bus route in Brooklyn, New York City, running mainly along Fifth Avenue and Atlantic Avenue between Fort Hamilton and Cobble Hill.Originally a streetcar line called the Fifth Avenue Line, it is now operated by the New York City Transit Authority as the Fifth/Atlantic Avenues bus.
John Nathan "Janno" Lieber (born September 19, 1961) [1] is the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. He was appointed acting chair and CEO in July 2021 and confirmed permanently in January 2022.