New York State’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board has approved a contract valued at $1.507bn for the purchase of 378 new R268 subway cars, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

Many of the MTA’s rail cars date back to the 1980s and are nearing the end of their useful life. Older trains break down ...

The MTA formally opened its new rail-car acceptance facility in Sunset Park on Friday, turning the Third Avenue Yard into a modern, indoor facility for inspecting, joining together and testing newly ...

The same billion-dollar outlay that Mayor Mamdani hopes to allocate for fare-free buses should be spent instead on rewriting the subway map.

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New York MTA Subway train. Credit: Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock.com. New York State’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board has approved a contract valued at $1.507bn for the purchase of ...