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6 NYC Subway Lines Will See Months-Long Service Cuts, MTA Says - New York City, NY - Straphangers will see fewer rush hour trains and uptown commute times drag longer along several lines starting ...
The R160 is a class of New Technology Train subway cars built for the New York City Subway's B Division. Entering service between 2006 and 2010, they replaced all R38, R40, and NYCT-operated R44 cars, and most R32 and R42 cars. The R160s are very similar to the earlier R143s and later R179s.
Find out what's happening in New York City with free, real-time updates from Patch. Subscribe The subways, for instance, hit 1 billion riders in November — six weeks earlier than in 2022.
New York City has stricter gun laws than most other cities in the U.S.—a license to own any firearm is required in New York City, and the NY SAFE Act of 2013 banned assault weapons—and New York State had the fifth-lowest gun death rate of the states in 2020. [344]
The current R service is the successor to the original route 2 of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation. [5] [6] When 2 service began on January 15, 1916, it ran between Chambers Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line and 86th Street on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, using the Manhattan Bridge to cross the East River, and running via Fourth Avenue local. [7]
In January 2012, the MTA Board voted to approve a plan to reroute westbound B103 service to operate without stops between Prospect Expressway and Flatbush Avenue, running along Seventh Avenue, Ninth Street, and Fifth Avenue instead of along Third Avenue.
The division comprises two brands: MTA Bus and MTA New York City Bus. While MTA Bus is an amalgamation of former private companies' routes, MTA New York City Bus is composed of public routes that were taken over by the city before 2005. The MTA also operates paratransit services and formerly operated Long Island Bus.
The New York Times called the C the "least loved of New York City subway lines", citing its fleet of R32s, which were almost 50 years old at the time the Times reported on the issue. [42] The New York Times has also stated that the C train "rattled and clanked along the deteriorating maze of tracks beneath the city, tin-clad markers of years of ...