The Transportation Museum Andrew Mancini, Director
New York, New York. What a wonderful city. What a wonderful state. What a wonderful transit system. MTA is famous for the many miles of subway track that stretch through 4 boroughs, and the Staten Island Railroad on the island, too.
Learn more about the city, its transit and its history below. For more information, visit MTA's website.
Subway, Buses, Paratransit
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America's largest transportation network, serving a population of 15.1 million people in the 5,000-square-mile area fanning out from New York City through Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut.
There are 24 subway lines, stretching 659 miles and serving 468 stops. There are 6,311 subway cars.
Motor-bus service on the streets of Manhattan began in 1905. Today, NYC Transit's buses run in all five boroughs, on more than 200 local and 30 express routes. They account for 80 percent of the city's surface mass transportation. For buses and paratransit, there are 4,431 buses driving 1,968 miles in total of all the 224 routes.
In total, the New York City Transit (which includes subways, buses, and paratransit) employs 45,537 people, and serves an average of 7,579,555 passengers per weekday, totaling an annual ridership of 2,331,836,169. The 2014 operating budget is $10.1 billion.
This data and more can be found at MTA's website, www.mta.info.
Note: Statistical data for the year ending December 31, 2012.
Trains
MTA runs the Staten Island Railroad and Long Island Railroad (LIRR). Also, MTA runs the Metro-North Railroad, which stretches up the Hudson River and into Connecticut.
On Staten Island, NYC Transit's Staten Island Railway links 22 communities. The one line on the island travels 29 miles, with 271 employees working. There are 63 cars on the island's fleet, which serve an average of 15,993 weekday passengers every day, coming to a yearly total of 4,445,173 passengers.
The Long Island Rail Road is both the largest commuter railroad and the oldest railroad in America operating under its original name. Chartered in 1834, it extends from three major New York City terminals — Penn Station, Flatbush Avenue, and Hunterspoint Avenue — through a major transfer hub at Jamaica to the easternmost tip of Long Island.
11 rail lines connect a weekday average of 285,082 passengers on 594 miles of track, serving 124 stations. 1,165 rail cars serve 81,653,411 passengers annualy, in 2012. MTA has hired 6,414 employees to work at LIRR.
Metro-North Railroad is second largest commuter railroad in the nation. Its main lines — the Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven — run northward out of Grand Central Terminal, a Beaux-Arts Manhattan landmark, into suburban New York and Connecticut. Grand Central has been completely restored and redeveloped as a retail hub — a destination in its own right.
82,953,628 passengers rode the railroad in 2012, with an average weekday total of 281,331 passengers. The 6 rail lines, including a line not in service, stretch 795 miles and serve 122 statons. There are 6,002 employees for MTA and Metro-North Railroad, and 1,239 rail cars.
This data and more can be found at MTA's website, www.mta.info.
Note: Statistical data for the year ending December 31, 2012.
Bridges
Created in 1933 by Robert Moses, MTA Bridges and Tunnels serves more than 830,000 vehicles each weekday — nearly 300 million vehicles each year — and carries more traffic than any other bridge and tunnel authority in the nation. Surplus revenues from the authority's tolls help support MTA transit services.
1,545 employees work in the division of New York's 7 bridges and 2 tunnels.
This data and more can be found at MTA's website, www.mta.info.
Note: Statistical data for the year ending December 31, 2012.
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