Sentences with phrase «new subway car»

The plan's short - term fixes will cost about $ 836 million to implement, while Phase 2 — which involves new signaling systems, new subway cars, and other items — is estimated to cost about $ 8 billion.

The commissioner said efforts to expand the Second Avenue Subway Line and buy new subway cars could help reduce tensions.

A contract for a thousand or more new subway cars for New York City's subways hasn't yet been awarded, a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled their new design features intended to boost capacity and make the ride more comfortable.

Orders for new subway cars and modernized signals are running very late.

But for all the fanfare with the Democratic governor's annual State of the State and budget address, municipal - finance experts and transit advocates are asking exactly how officials will pay for — among other things — new subway cars, a revamp of New York Penn Station and upgraded roads.

Mr. Cuomo also pressured the authority to spend tens of millions of dollars to study outfitting M.T.A. bridges with lights capable of choreographed display, install wireless internet and phone - charging ports on buses and paint the state logo on new subway cars.

In the short - term, he said, the MTA amended its capital plan about a month and half ago and moved over $ 1 billion from signal fixes and new subway cars «to things like subway station beautification.»

Downstate, Cuomo has committed to contributing $ 8.3 billion toward the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $ 29 billion plan to modernize the transit system with new subway cars and buses and 30 redesigned subway stations.

The MTA is set to roll out refurbished stations as well as new subway cars, Cuomo announced on Monday.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who effectively controls the M.T.A., has yet to decide whether to fully fund its $ 32 billion, five - year capital plan which pays for things like new subway cars and maintaining the system in a state of moderately good repair.

Not exact matches

(If you live in New York City, you've no doubt seen Jet's advertising plastered atop taxi cabs and inside subway cars.)

The train line, consisting of eight vintage New York subway cars from several different eras, runs for a few weekends each year — from the Sunday after Thanksgiving to the end of the year, only on Sundays.

The plant has built subway cars for New Delhi and is poised to serve Southeast Asian markets.

The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity by jeremy beeruniversity of pennsylvania, 134 pages, $ 19.95 As I sat on the subway car reading Jeremy Beer's new book The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity, a homeless man entered the....

I lived in New York for seven years and I've never once seen a New York subway car even half as full as a Tokyo train during commuter hours.

Funding included in the recently passed state budget will allow New York City subway cars to be repaired more quickly, Cuomo said while unveiling an effort aimed at improving service for a transit system notorious for frequent breakdowns.

And he says there have been several instances in New York, including swastikas painted on a subway train and in a Buffalo suburb, along with a KKK flier placed on cars on Long Island.

New York City's subways are bursting at the seams, with commuters cramming into increasingly overcrowded cars and signal malfunctions contributing to a steady uptick in delays.

We are going to do more than renovate — we are bringing subway stations to a higher standard than ever before, and the new vision for subway cars will increase capacity and reduce overcrowding and delays.»

New Yorkers are experiencing record levels of subway delays, dangerously overcrowded platforms and cars, and worst - ever traffic jams that are slowing our buses to a crawl, causing riders to flee by the thousands.

They may have private cars in Hollywood (OK, here too), but these celebs know that sometimes you just can't beat the subway for getting around New York City.

Observer article on BP Adams joining Governor Cuomo at the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn to unveil modernized subway cars.

The problem is even with more money, bringing in new equipment to replace aging subway cars is a lengthy process.

There's a dispute over why the MTA removed a set of ads promoting a new Amazon series that feature Nazi and Imperial Japanese insignia from several New York City subway canew Amazon series that feature Nazi and Imperial Japanese insignia from several New York City subway caNew York City subway cars.

The agency that runs New York City's troubled subway said it plans to spend close to $ 4 billion to buy over a thousand new train cars to modernize an aging fleet, a major investment meant to help remedy the delays and breakdowns that plague the systNew York City's troubled subway said it plans to spend close to $ 4 billion to buy over a thousand new train cars to modernize an aging fleet, a major investment meant to help remedy the delays and breakdowns that plague the systnew train cars to modernize an aging fleet, a major investment meant to help remedy the delays and breakdowns that plague the system.

Deputy Chief Kim Royster told the New York Times that the suspect shot both officers from the passenger side of the patrol car, ran up Myrtle Avenue into the subway and shot himself.

He said that the $ 500 million in revenue reserved for modernizing the subways and buses could support the MTA borrowing up to $ 8 billion for capital upgrades — funding he says should be used for infrastructure improvements such as signal improvements, new cars and track maintenance.

Council members Mark Levine, Helen Rosenthal and Keith Powers, who intend to introduce legislation Wednesday, say commuters drive over the George Washington Bridge, park their cars and then hop onto subways, leaving actual New Yorkers with limited space for their own cars.

Fueled by a photo of a man sleeping under seats on a subway car, Cuomo said the New York Police Department should be doing more to help the homeless.

After years of pressure from grassroots advocacy groups, the MTA board voted unanimously to ban advertising of alcoholic beverages on New York City buses, subway cars and stations, contending that the social benefits of deterring underage drinking outweighed the loss of revenue.

$ 26 billion for New York City public transit system, replacing 3,100 buses and 1,400 subway cars, improve 30 subway stations.

At the end of July, Lhota unveiled the NYC Subway Action Plan: an $ 836 million short - term plan to yield upgrades within a year and an $ 8 billion long - term plan that focuses on long - term improvements, such as better subway cars, the adoption of a new signal system and modern communications technology.

The second phase, which will cost $ 8 billion, will focus on long - term improvements such as better subway cars, a new signal system and modern communications technology.

The M.T.A.'s $ 32 billion capital plan is supposed to keep the transportation system in a state of decent repair, enabling it to buy new buses and subway cars, and new signals allowing trains to run more closely together, among many other things.

Garodnick is a key figure in the long - standing quest to rezone and promote new construction in Midtown East — a district shaped by stately but ageing office buildings and cramped subway cars.

It's not uncommon in a New York City subway car, an airport terminal or just about any other public space to see a dozen or more people completely consumed by what's happening on the screen of their smartphone, to the exclusion of the world around them.

Many North American cities don't have subways, but that's not stopping the Internet from imagining what mass transit would look like in some of America's most car - centric metro areas.Albuquerque, New Mexico doesn't have a subway system, but if it did, it might look like this: Albuquerque may never have a subway system, but one can dream, right?

For example, when I was bored, bummed, and burnt - out with New York, I would focus on the gum on the sidewalks, the people crammed like sardines in the subway cars, and the long lines.

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a break (brāk) v. broke (brōk), bro · ken (brō ′ kən), break · ing, breaks.

Students at Transit Tech High School work on retired New York City subway cars that are permanently parked inside the school.

Even in the so - called Comfort mode, it rides like a New York City subway car, shuddering over bumps and clattering from station to station.

While the New China International Exhibition Centre is 10 minutes» drive from the hotel, guests can reach the downtown Beijing in 15 minutes via the airport express subway or 30 minutes by car.

Lee Quiñones (b. 1960, Ponce de Leon, Puerto Rico) has been painting since the 1970s, first on New York City's streets and subway cars, and then shifting to a studio - based practice.

Chris «Daze» Ellis shares the beginnings of his career in the infamous 1980s New York City scene and his evolution from painting subway cars to exhibiting in galleries in an exclusive artist talk...

She has performed impromptu acrobatic routines in a Stockholm subway car in Paralyzed (2003) and moonwalked her way through the streets of Manhattan at night in The Myth of Progress — Moonwalk (2008), which premiered in the New Museum exhibition «After Nature,» (2008) and marked Lidén's first New York museum presentation.

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In New York City, subway cars sound like a Victorian sanitarium — and grimy hands aside, it's the 50 - MPH cough (and even faster sneezes) that give germs the joy ride of their lives as they travel to brand new bodies to infeNew York City, subway cars sound like a Victorian sanitarium — and grimy hands aside, it's the 50 - MPH cough (and even faster sneezes) that give germs the joy ride of their lives as they travel to brand new bodies to infenew bodies to infect.

As Ian wrote: «The reef, named after New York City's famous Redbird subway cars, now supports more than 10,000 angler trips annually, up from fewer than 300 in 1997.

Ian Urbina has an engaging story in The Times today on one such effort, in which the state of Delaware is building a synthetic reef of old New York City subway cars.

Not only do most New Yorkers not own cars, we also have trains, subways, buses, and taxis for everyone else.