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City/area served Annual ridership, 2023 [1] Avg. ridership weekdays, Q3 2024 [2] System length Avg. boardings per mile weekdays, Q3 2024 Opened Stations Lines 1 New York City Subway: NYCTA [note 1] New York City: 2,027,286,000 5,955,000 248 mi (399 km) [3] 24,012 1904 [4] 472 [4] 26 [4] 2 Washington Metro: WMATA: Washington metropolitan area ...
Alfred Ely Beach (September 1, 1826 – January 1, 1896) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is known for his design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City Subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which became the first subway in America. [1]
The R62 in particular was the first New York City Subway car class built by a foreign manufacturer. [240] These were all delivered between 1983 and 1989. The R10, R14, R16, R17, R21, and R22 car classes all were retired with the deliveries of the R62/As and R68/As.
City/area served Annual ridership (2019) [1] [2] Avg. daily weekday boardings (Q4 2019) [1] [2] System length Avg. daily boardings per mile (Q4 2019) Year opened Stations Lines Date 1 New York City Subway USA New York City 2,723,960,100 9,117,400 248 miles (399 km) [4] 36,764 1904 [note 1] 472 [5] 24 [5] 2 Mexico City Metro Mexico Mexico City
This is a list of North American rapid transit systems by ridership. These heavy rail or rapid transit systems are also known as metro or subway systems. This list of systems in North America does not include light rail , even when they are integrated with heavy rail.
The New York City Subway system has, for the most part, used block signaling since its first line opened, and many portions of the current signaling system were installed between the 1930s and 1960s. These signals work by preventing trains from entering a "block" occupied by another train. Typically, the blocks are 1,000 feet (300 m) long. [220]
As of 22 December 2024, 204 cities in 65 countries operate 891 metro lines. The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line, the City and South London Railway , opened in 1890, [ 1 ] making it the world's first deep-level electric metro system. [ 2 ]
On January 24, 1901, the Board adopted the first route, which would extend the subway 3.1 miles (5.0 km) from City Hall to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s Flatbush Avenue terminal station (now known as Atlantic Terminal) in Brooklyn. The line's cost was expected to be no greater than $8 million, and added 8 miles (13 km) of trackage.