# New York subway 101: A guide to train car types ## Do you know your R188 from your R32?By Hannah Frishberg |
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New York subway 101: A guide to train car types Do you know your R188 from your R32? By H. Frishberg
www.nycsubway.org is an excellent site for the above information and a host of other things about the NYCTA rapid transit operation.
My former acoustical consulting firm partner, Larry King. reports to me that subway service has recently improved, faster, far fewer delays, and more frequent.
| # Subway Performance Continues to Show Dramatic Improvements, Reaching Highest Weekday On-Time Performance in Five Years – Subway Action Plan and Enhanced Operations Efforts Are Working |
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On-Time Performance in March Reached 78%, Up from 65% Last March and Highest Since November 2013; Number of Delays Fell 40% Since March 2018, to less than 38,000; Major Incidents Fell to 50, Down 40% Since Last March; Substantial Improvements Seen Across Broad Range of Metrics Subway Action Plan Launched by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2017, and Funded by Governor, Legislature and City to Stabilize and Improve Aging System Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye, Managing Director Veronique Hakim and NYC Transit President Andy Byford today announced new statistics showing the continued dramatic subway performance improvements that have been achieved since the launch of the Subway Action Plan and the Save Safe Seconds campaign. On-Time Performance continues to be significantly improved over 2018, and major incidents are declini |
Revisions in speed limits and in speed-control signals
“D” means diverging (curved) route only.
June 03, 2019
MTA New York City Transit to Modernize Service Status Notices with New, Additional Detail
Seven New Categories of Subway Status, Provided on Line-by-Line Basis, Will Help Riders Better Plan Their Trips
MTA New York City Transit announced today that starting this week, as part of an ongoing commitment to provide more transparent and useful information to the riding public, the “Service Status” notices on mta.info http://mta.info/ and on other channels will provide a much deeper level of detail, with seven new categories of service status conveyed on a line-by-line basis. In the system being retired, there are only several broad categories, and multiple subway lines are grouped together by corridor, making it difficult to tell at a glance exactly what line is impacted in what manner.
“New Yorkers live in the ‘right now’ and deserve helpful information in the moment so they can make the right choices about their travel,” said NYC Transit President Andy Byford. “These changes provide customers targeted, at-a-glance information to help them quickly understand exactly what’s happening on their line. It’s always our goal to improve the quality of our real-time information and this is another step forward in that ongoing process.”
In an effort led by the recently established chief customer officer, Sarah Meyer, NYC Transit has been working hard to enhance the information provided to help customers assess their options when planning their trips, on multiple channels such as mta.info http://mta.info/, Twitter, car and station announcements, and station signage. As the agency gets more robust real-time data from modernizing train technologies, not only will service continue to improve but so will the usefulness of information provided to customers as they plan their travel.
The new language will describe
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New signs.
From former partner Larry S. King:
Typical of improved customer communications under Andy Byford.
I’ll try to fix both pix after Shabbat
A better view of one sign and now the one that was missing:
The photo was taken at 96/Bwy station. My guess is that the 5 may have been included due to train rerouting because of track maintenance work.
Larry reports: The photo was taken at 96/Bwy station. My guess is that the 5 may have been included due to train rerouting because of track maintenance work. |
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December 10, 2021 |
| # MTA to Retire 1960s-Era Subway Cars With Celebratory Final Runs |
New York City Transit to Retire R-32s After 58 Years of Service < |
Metra didn’t make as a splash about it but they did issue a press release regarding the last runs of the Highliners on the electric line a few years ago. It was a bit unnerving because I could remember when they first entered service.