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MTA to replace yellow-and-orange seat subway trains in 2025
On average, they break down six times as often as newer model trains. Newer railcars are also compatible with the modernized CBTC signaling, which allows the MTA to run trains more frequently and ...
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‘Like cancer’: MTA’s trains depend on rusty, corroding columns from the early 1900s
Just north of Grand Central Terminal’s gleaming main concourse in Midtown, thousands of steel beams supporting the station’s train tunnels are deteriorating. Metro-North riders looking out ...
MTA revives Brooklyn’s State St. subway power room after December explosion
The State St. Substation in Brooklyn — the subway power room that blew up last month and stranded several trains underground ...
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MTA revives Interborough Express light-rail project with $100M RFP
The $5.5 billion Interborough Express, a rail link between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights, has progressed sluggishly since Gov ...
New York Daily News20d
Mystery track defect wearing out NYC subway car wheels has MTA shuffling trains
In turn, the MTA sent a dozen five-car R160 sets from the G train to Jamaica, where they were configured into six 10-car trains for service on the E, F and R lines. An unknown number of R179s from ...
Four-month subway shutdown to Rockaways starts this week to repair lingering Sandy impacts
A major winter subway improvement project is set to begin this week, with the MTA shuttering service on the Rockaway Line for four months to address lingering damage left behind by Superstorm Sandy ...