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For once, New Yorkers are praying for subway delays. The MTA's announcement it will phase out an iconic portion of the fleet in 2025 has normally jaded straphangers feeling nostalgic over the loss ...
MTA officials said on January 5 that the disruptions would continue throughout the day, hoping that service would be restored later that day. 1 train service was suspended between 137th Street–City College and Times Square–42nd Street, 2 trains ran along the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, and 3 trains were suspended between 135th Street and ...
Host Willie Geist reiterated Lawler’s point, noting that with a $20 billion budget, the MTA “already should have been able to take care of the subways” without adding on the extra $9 fee for ...
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in New York City serving the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
The transit advocacy group Riders Alliance stated that in August 2018, there was only one weekday where the subway system did not experience delays due to signal or equipment malfunctions. [100] [101] Subway trains had a 68% on-time rate in summer 2018; such a low reliability metric had not been seen since the 1970s transit crisis. [99]
An MTA subway operator is “fighting for his life” after he was stabbed multiple times Tuesday morning in Brooklyn by a transit recidivist, union officials said.
The cutbacks meant that wait times during rush hours increased from 8 to 12 minutes. In March 2021, TWU 100, the union for subway workers, sued the MTA in order to prevent the reduced frequencies from being permanent. [39] That same month, the MTA decided to bring back full C service; full service was restored in mid-2021. [40] [41]
The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of electric multiple unit rolling stock. As of September 2024, the New York City Subway has 6712 cars on the roster. The system maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division (numbered) routes, the other for the B Division (lettered) routes ...