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David L. Gunn (born June 21, 1937) is a transportation system administrator who has headed several significant railroads and transit systems in North America. He was director of operations of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) from 1975 to 1979, general manager and chief operations officer of SEPTA from 1979 to 1984, president of the New York City Transit Authority from 1984 ...
The MTA was in the process of creating the first technologically-advanced subway car since the R44 in the early 1970s. [11] In order to avoid the aforementioned problem, in 1989, the MTA awarded contracts for two prototype test trains, one of which was the R110A (contract R130) for the A Division built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries , and the ...
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 ...
In 2017 Janno Lieber became MTA Capital Construction president; [2] in 2021 he was appointed Acting Chair of the MTA. [3] Projects being built under MTA Capital Construction include the East Side Access and phases 2, 3, and 4 of the Second Avenue Subway.
8 was a designation given to two New York City Subway services. It was first used by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation for its Astoria Line from 1917 to 1949. The ex-Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) Third Avenue El subsequently used the designation between 1967 and 1973.
The R40 was the second of four subway car types built in succession by the St. Louis Car Company for the NYCTA, in a period that spanned from 1965–1973. As the straight-ended R40As and the subsequent R42 order were nearly identical, they were often operated together in mixed-consists.
A native of Randolph, Massachusetts, Davey earned a BA degree from the College of the Holy Cross and a JD summa cum laude from the Gonzaga University School of Law. [1] [2]He began his legal career in 1999 with the United States Department of Justice as a trial attorney for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. [3]
Two former NYCTA employees who had been fired while receiving methadone treatment and two applicants who were denied employment because of their use and past use of methadone sued the TA in federal district court. The court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and found the policy unconstitutional. While the ...