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Select Bus Service ( SBS; stylized as +selectbus service) is a brand used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in New York City. The first SBS route was implemented in 2008 to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors.
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R14 was a New York City Subway car model built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1949. The cars were a "follow-up" or supplemental stock for the A Division's R12s and look exactly the same, differing only in floor patterns. A total of 150 cars were built, arranged as single units.
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R179 is a class of 318 New Technology Train subway cars built by Bombardier Transportation for the New York City Subway 's B Division. Entering service between 2017 and 2020, the cars replaced all remaining R32s and R42s . The R179 order originally contained 208 cars that were each 75 feet (23 m) long.
The MTA has adopted an odd new nickname for New York City's transit chief, who apparently "loves you very much." Kathleen Culliton , Patch Staff Posted Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 9:38 am ET | Updated Thu ...
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 ...
With the opening of the IND Sixth Avenue Line on December 15, 1940, F service began, operating as the line's Queens Boulevard service. It operated between Parsons Boulevard and Church Avenue via Queens Boulevard Line, Sixth Avenue Line, and the Culver Line. It ran express in Queens and local in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The R was originally the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation 's 2 service, running along the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn then traveling through the Montague Street Tunnel to Manhattan, then running local on the BMT Broadway Line. The 2 became the RR in 1961. The RR ran local along the BMT Astoria Line in Queens, terminating at ...
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. ISBN 0-8232-1618-7; Dougherty, Peter J. Tracks of the New York City Subway, version 4.2. 2007; External links. nycsubway.org New York City ...