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A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers.
The first traffic lights in New York City originated from traffic towers installed along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the 1910s. [4] The first such towers were installed in 1920 and were replaced in 1929 by bronze traffic signals. [5]
1, 2 and 3 train service is suspended in most of Manhattan, the MTA via X. Motorists should also expect road closures and emergency personnel from West 95th Street to West 97th Street on Broadway ...
The Eighth Avenue Line is a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along Eighth Avenue from Lower Manhattan to Harlem.Originally a streetcar line, it is now the M10 bus route and the M20 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority.
There are 151 New York City Subway stations in Manhattan, [^ 1] per the official count of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA); of these, 32 are express-local stations. [^ 2] [^ 3] If the 18 station complexes [^ 4] are counted as one station each, the number of stations is 121. In the table below, lines with colors next to them ...
In 2002, Schaller Consulting conducted a study on potential bus rapid transit services in New York City. [1] [2] In 2004, the MTA in conjunction with the New York City Department of Transportation and New York State Department of Transportation, performed an initial study on bus rapid transit, with 80 corridors studied citywide.
By mid-July, the MTA had only conducted one meeting with Connecticut officials and none with New Jersey officials. [122] MTA officials had publicly stated in mid-2021 that the agency was earning enough from state taxes to pay for its capital upgrades and that it did not need congestion pricing funds for its 2020–2024 Capital Program. [123]
Deteriorating subway station wall at 168th Street. 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.