Sentences with phrase «subway cars for»

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.

In the midst of the the downstate mass transit crisis, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie tomorrow will make a visit to Bombardier, an upstate company that makes subway cars for the state.

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

If an overly long commute can spike cortisol levels, then waiting around for delayed trains — and even getting trapped in a steamy subway car for an hour — can't be doing wonders for anyone's health.

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Whether you opt for audiobooks in the car or hide from the subway crowd by burying your face in a book, BI points out that an engaging read is the perfect way to tune out that terrible commute while simultaneously nourishing your mind.

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 women - only subway cars are in many ways a metaphor for China.

Other factors in this revolution include the urgent imperative to make cities more livable, with lower congestion and cleaner air, the enormous potential for autonomous cars and trucks, innovative approaches to subway systems and buses, and rising consumer interest in car sharing and bike sharing.

He looks like someone riding a subway for the first time — grabbing not one, but two, handles as he desperately scans the car's signage for some sort of map.

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.

Specifically, I'm looking for strollers that: a) weigh under 22 lbs, b) have a full (or almost full) recline suitable for newborns, c) can be easily collapsed and carried on subways, taxis, planes and in the trunk of our small car, etc., and d) do not require a separate bassinet for newborns.

In order to help you stroll and navigate easily through narrow lanes and crowded subway cars, we have put together a list of the narrowest double stroller options for you.

The union that represents transit workers on Tuesday in a statement cheered the broad strokes of a plan being adopted by the MTA that seeks to provide faster fixes and expedited maintenance for subway cars.

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.

Cuomo took some hits on Twitter for touting self - driving cars from NYC residents who would like to see him focus on fixing the subway system.

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.»

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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.

NYC's beleaguered straphangers are forced to squeeze into overpacked subway cars, endure delays and watch helplessly as their stations are shuttered for months.

Politicians boarded a NYC subway car today for a 24 - hour tour of the troubled transit system, getting an earful from straphangers about the problem - plagued trains.

Those funds could then be used for core infrastructure improvements on the subway, to things like signal fixes, news cars, and track maintenance.

«When the subway stopped at Fort Hamilton, we heard what sounded like gunfire but we were unsure until people came running for their lives into our car,» Scandalios wrote.

Nor does it specify how the $ 1.5 billion a year — from hefty surcharges on cars, trucks and for - hire vehicles to drive in congested areas of Manhattan — will actually be spent to improve city subways and buses.

The capital program, the agency said, also allocates $ 2.7 billion for signal and communications infrastructure, $ 1.8 billion for track and switch work and $ 1.7 billion for subway cars.

Commuters haven't been shy about taking to social media when crammed in sweltering subway cars stuck in tunnels or jammed on station platforms waiting for overdue trains, something Lhota alluded to when asked how he plans to determine the improvement plans are working.

He's no stranger to controversy, making headlines for allegedly taking money from a 2013 campaign volunteer to pay for rent and a campaign manager's colonoscopy, once getting busted by cops for walking between subway cars, and paying a hospital visit to Ruben Diaz Sr., a controversial Bronx lawmaker who opposes gay marriage.

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

They will be installed on 2,600 subway cars and additional campaigns are being created for buses, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro - North Railroad.

More than 700 MTA subway cars are considered to have outlived their «useful lifecycles» of 40 years as the agency waits for long - delayed replacements.

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.

Congestion pricing has been in political limbo for weeks since Fix NYC, a state task force assembled by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, called for charging a daily fee — $ 11.52 for passenger cars — to drive into a congestion zone in Manhattan from 60th Street south to the Battery at busy times, as part of a plan to reduce gridlock on the streets and raise money for the struggling subway below.

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.

A jammed subway car door and signal problems brought the morning commute to a grinding halt for thousands of straphangers Thursday morning.

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

MANHATTAN — City Councilman Corey Johnson tried to call NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton or Chief of Department James O'Neill while he was being ticketed for moving between subway cars Wednesday, Bratton said during a Friday press conference.

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.

The state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, faces a litany of problems, including antiquated signals and overcrowded cars, that have led to frequent breakdowns — much of it documented by smartphone - toting commuters for the world to see.

Unless it's «necessary for public safety reasons,» the NYPD will no longer arrest people for certain low - level offenses in Manhattan, including public consumption of alcohol, public urination, littering and riding between subway cars or taking up more than one subway seat — and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will no longer prosecute those infractions, his office said today.

She can walk to the Longevity Center for her frequent infusions and, after that, to her job as an emergency physician at Capital Hospital without being trapped in a car, a subway, a plane.

Just to make sure, I swabbed a subway car handrail and had it checked for two bugs that are often in the news lately, E. coli and staph bacteria, as well as for a general measure of bacterial activity, known as the standard plate count, or SPC.. The E. coli and staph test came back negative, and the rail's SPC count of 480 compared favorably with the SPC of 200,000 that was obtained from a swab taken at a water fountain in a park near DISCOVER's offices.

Artificial reefs, concrete structures, sunken ships, and even submerged subway cars are increasingly being used around the globe to attract recreational divers, for both environmental and commercial reasons.

So often, we take them for granted in this life: water running out of your taps, the freedom of walking out of your door into a peaceful street, the gift of mobility via a car, a bus or a subway, sipping coffee and chatting with friends or colleagues... as you come home from your day, take a few moments to write down a list of things in your life for which you are grateful — begin a gratitude journal.

For example, parking your car further away at stores, getting off the bus or subway a few stops earlier, dancing more at home or out, walking down the hallway to talk to a co-worker instead of emailing them are all forms of physical activity.

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.

I also planned on using Annie's Sloan's Old White but needed to get into some mixing for that signature subway - car green.

If you've ever asked yourself how, say, one bully on a subway car could berate his girlfriend for twenty stops without anyone else intervening, or how four men with box cutters could hijack a crowded airliner, this movie answers the question.

The movie's harrowing car / subway train chase was maybe the best chase ever filmed for a while, and it helped show what you could do with that sort of scene.

But a set piece for the ages comes late in the game, as Popeye commandeers a passing car to chase a hijacked subway train under its elevated track (Friedkin's camera is mounted on both train and automobile).

In that story Krigstein does interesting things with panel repetition or thinly slicing certain panels so you get a strobe effect as a subway car races by, or he slows down a moment of action, of someone falling on the subway tracks, by carving it into six or seven tiny vertical panels, and that's as much an inspiration for what we are doing as anything.