NEW YORK’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unveiled a comprehensive plan on May 15 to improve reliability on the New York subway and restructure its management team.

The Second Avenue Subway is the first major addition to New York City’s subway for 50 years. Kevin Smith speaks with the team that delivered the project and considers the challenges they faced in building a new line beneath the streets of Manhattan.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is the United States’ largest public transit agency. Kevin Smith reflects on outgoing chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast’s recent interview with Railway Age editor-in-chief William Vantuono, where he outlined some of the agency’s current challenges and successes as well as the organisation’s plans for the future.

NEW York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has reported record ridership numbers on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), Metro-North Railroad and the newly added Second Avenue Subway.

NEW York City celebrated the opening of a 4.4km extension of the Q Line metro from 57th Street and Seventh Avenue to 96th Street and Second Avenue in the upper east side of Manhattan on December 31, nearly a century since the project was first proposed.

NEW York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and its Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) subsidiary announced that they have received four design proposals from qualified engineering firms for the modernisation of LIRR’s part of Penn Station as part of plans to transform Penn Station and the historic James A. Farley Post Office into a transport hub.

NEW YORK state governor Mr Andrew Cuomo unveiled plans on September 27 for a $US 1.6bn project to redevelop the James A Farley post office as New York City’s future hub for Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) services, replacing cramped and inadequate facilities at the adjacent Pennsylvania station.

THE first of 300 Bombardier R179 cars ordered by New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the subway B Division was unloaded at 207th Street yard in Upper Manhattan on September 6.

DESIGN studies for the next-generation of New York subway trains and refurbished stations were revealed as part of the $US 27bn Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) five-year capital programme, which was unveiled by New York state governor Mr Andrew Cuomo at Brooklyn Transit Museum on July 18.

NEW YORK state governor Mr Andrew Cuomo has revived plans to construct a third track on a congested section of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Main Line as part of his 2016 agenda, which was announced on January 5.