It's a brash sense of deserved ownership, from the streets to the bodegas, the subways to the Subways.
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And though Bloomberg, during his mayoralty, famously rode the subways, he never managed to seem of the subways.
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The subways are currently operated and financed by the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees a sprawling network of subways, buses, railroads, bridges and tunnels.
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Mr. Stringer and transit advocates have suggested pricing commuter trains within the city the same as subways — $403 for a ride, including free transfers to subways and buses — to encourage more riders.
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I wrote my personal statement on subways between temp jobs.
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They wait in traffic jams and ride in overcrowded subways.
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The attack didn't kill anyone but disrupted the city's subways.
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Rent, food, subways, clothing - all are far more expensive here.
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How did you originally get obsessed with subways and transportation?
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Subways were bypassing 23rd Street stations on the West Side.
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Both are glad to avoid commuting on the crowded subways.
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Subways around the country are in desperate need of work.
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"The MTA controls the subways and the buses," she said.
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For now, there are no subways that serve the neighborhood.
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For years, the subways have been dirty, slow and unreliable.
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What are the new costs for riding subways and buses?
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And in truth, the subways out here are no better.
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Subways are, thankfully, expected to run on a normal schedule.
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What irrigation is to farmland, subways are to real estate.
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This ring won't put you in danger on the subways.
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The ferry is free, as are transfers to Manhattan subways.
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I've used more modern technology on subways in other cities.
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New York's subways and public housing have fallen into decrepitude.
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The whistles distributed at subways stations this week are black.
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Her anger over the subways has found a receptive audience.
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US health care costs about four times as much as equivalent health care in other First World countries; US subways cost about eight times as much as equivalent subways in other First World countries.
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The city's most recent estimate of the population found 3,675 homeless people on the streets, in parks and on subways on a single winter night in 2018 — 48 percent of whom were in the subways.
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Many streets were also closed, and subways lines skipped nearby stops.
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The lack of accessibility in our subways is literally killing people.
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He robbed some Subways, and used my bicycle to do it.
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Subways are closed in Hong Kong for an unprecedented fourth day.
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In New York, only service animals are permitted on the subways.
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And I said, 'And I don't take subways late at night.
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That's when Jack Maple began mapping crimes on New York subways.
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Subways, planes, coffee shops, you name it, the hoverboard was banned.
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Even airlines and subways are ripe for subscription innovation, she said.
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We hung out with the Guardian Angels 'patrolling' the NYC subways.
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Subways were off-limits because of how overcrowded they always are.
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They're used to cleaning up tags and buffing walls in subways.
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This train was in better condition than the subways, at least.
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The M train, like most New York subways, is often delayed.
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Cuomo closed the city's subways in 2015 without notifying its mayor.
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OFF THE RAILS Little Darius McCollum always loved New York subways.
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One model for saving New York's subways is the London Underground.
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Do you think their version of "Subways" is a good song?
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Underground and elevated: How smoking weed can save the city's subways.
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Higher prices encourage many potential customers to opt for the subways.
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An episode of "America's Got Talent" about subways, it was not.
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Nearly six million riders cram into the city's subways each day.
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New York City's subways are jammed with record numbers of riders.
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For those who don't walk to work, there are numerous subways.
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If so, you may be wondering: Are the subways great again?
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It has since grown to include subways far beyond New York.
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The base fare for subways and buses could jump to $3.
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Tell us what you think: Are the subways getting more dangerous?
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The governor has been criticized for the problems plaguing the subways.
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According to DNAInfo, 48 people were killed by MTA subways in 2016.
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Cars and subways are an everyday sight at this point in time.
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Subways are primarily underground, so there's nowhere for the particles to go.
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"We don't really know the health risks of riding subways," said Evans.
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But I guess they want to push everybody into subways as well?
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Tunnel of misery The city subways are not alone in their misery.
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The subways remain public, a vast network unparalleled elsewhere in the nation.
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In Europe alone, commuters in more than 60 cities use rail subways.
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The subways are a mess, so I grab an overpriced Uber home.
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The subways often set up checkpoints to conduct random searches of backpacks.
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The tunnels will eventually be a paid alternative to buses or subways.
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New York's subways are slower today than they were a century ago.
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Subways have completely revolutionized how people travel in the US and beyond.
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That generations of indifference would not exact a toll on the subways?
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Honking cars and screeching subways are among the city's most notable sounds.
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She loves the arteries of the subways, the lungs of the parks.
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None of that increased property tax revenue was earmarked for the subways.
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And if the subways are delayed, they can't get to their work.
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This past year has been a bumpy ride for our crumbling subways.
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He's written a third novel, "Miss Subways," and he's got a band.
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So, sometime after midnight, they begin making their way to the subways.
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Some argued the funds should be used for subways in denser areas.
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Now he showcases his talents to audiences commuting on the city's subways.
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Transportation — buses, subways, ferries, trains, airplanes, and private cars — has been halted.
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It has transformed fear-inducing parks and subways into vibrant public spaces.
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Their subways are accessible, and the taxi fleet is 100 percent accessible.
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Mr. Wagner spends a lot of his time photographing on the subways.
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The state-run M.T.A. oversees the city's subways, buses and commuter railroads.
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New Yorkers have to elbow their way onto packed subways below ground.
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Each post had models walking throughout the city, from streets to subways.
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What if it reignites New Yorkers' appreciation for their long-neglected subways?
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The subways shuddering across the city are a little emptier than usual.
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I think the subways affect us and we feel strongly about them.
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For them, it was just another day in New York City's subways.
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From roads to subways, cities are literally where the rubber meets the road.
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Using facial recognition for payments isn't new, although using it on subways is.
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Trains and subways are super tight spaces and they're very hard to escape.
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And if people pull away from subways, they are going to erode further.
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UberPool has been praised by transportation advocates for helping complement subways and buses.
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Together, they studied the movements of passengers on Beijing's buses, trains and subways.
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TRANSPORTATION New York City subways and buses will operate on a Sunday schedule.
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" And I was like: "But I don't ride subways and I don't date.
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An alternative theory proposes the opposite: without functioning subways, the city couldn't function.
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And yet, the lesson remains: Please, don't ride on top of the subways.
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It was a scary time; all the old subways were full of skinheads.
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Yes, traffic is terrible and subways are crowded and the weather is unpredictable.
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An average of 85,000 riders are on the subways between 12:30 a.m.
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Scenes of her riding the subways are also spliced in her opening ad.
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Here's how your trip home is looking: • Subways: Expect delays on 7 trains.
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Even M.T.A. officials acknowledged that the subways have a long way to go.
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New York's packed roads and hobbled subways have given them a great opportunity.
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And a helipad, because, well, have you seen the subways in New York?
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New schools are needed, according to the city, and the subways are packed.
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Instead, he has proposed taxing the wealthy to raise money for the subways.
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And nearly the minute these subways opened, they exploded with people, and crowding.
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Also being shut down for the next 21 days are buses and subways.
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What happens in the subways and on trains can affect millions of riders.
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With mounting bills for basic maintenance, these subways have largely failed to grow.
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Cuomo controls the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the public agency that runs the subways.
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As a senior, you get this lovely half-price card for the subways.
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Iran has also taken measures to disinfect subways in its capital of Tehran.
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The subways gross me out; I hate summer more than I hate winter.
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"The subways in New York City are at a crisis point," he said.
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Other than emergencies, people cannot leave Wuhan using its buses, subways, or ferries.
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So making a map of its subways required more than pencils and rulers.
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Most lack modern urban mass transportation systems like subways and organised bus services.
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The subject of mayoral control of the subways, he said, may come up.
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If we don't fix our subways, our economy is not going to work.
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The governor shut down the subways during a snowstorm without first telling the mayor.
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The city has suspended bus service, and has halted service on above-ground subways.
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"They are redoubling their efforts on city subways," Mr. Ferrer said of the police.
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Beijing's traffic jams are horrendous, its subways overloaded and its water supply running low.
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Subways in cities such as Washington, DC for example, are adding mobile phone service.
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In New York City, the answer is clear: Use it to fix the subways.
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Parker says wardrobe cues were always all around her — on the streets and subways.
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For this particular development, Cuomo was not confused as to who controlled the subways.
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The posters were stripped from city subways after Mayor Ed Koch declared them obscene.
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That's what subways and buses do — move lots of people using relatively little space.
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The Port Authority shut down all subways and the walking tunnels near the bombing.
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Now, some city and state officials are questioning the policing strategy in the subways.
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In particular, the two issues facing these subways, as demonstrated, are performance and overcrowding.
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No subways, no buses, no Ubers to collapse into when the going got tough.
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His staff called Byford's staff, looking to schedule a fixing-the-subways press event.
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In the past decade, even as the subways have deteriorated, ridership has steadily increased.
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But ferries are one way to help relieve increasingly crowded subways, Ms. Gelinas said.
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Cellphone networks and the internet have also gone black, along with subways and trains.
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"As a New Yorker, I'd definitely like to have efficiently running subways," he said.
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Grace Notes Sarah Charlop-Powers was comparing New York City's forests to its subways.
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Like the city's subways, if districts do not comply, the state can withhold funding.
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Panhandling remains illegal in the city's subways and buses and at Transit Authority stations.
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The subways were packed, leading to several stations on one route being shut down.
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"It is an increasing problem," said Andy Byford, who oversees the subways and buses.
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And it's not just new cities that are seeing major investments in their subways.
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"Every time we were in Paris lately, the subways were flooded," Mr. Elmgreen said.
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The subways were suspended after water rose more than a foot above the rails.
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They ride Amtrak, the Long Island Rail Road, the subways and New Jersey Transit.
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While more than 2,500 New York City police officers now patrol the subways, Gov.
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If the subways and buses shut down, the city would come to a standstill.
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He continued working as an armed officer patrolling Washington-area subways and bus lines.
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Here's the latest: Transit: No major delays for the city subways have been announced.
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This usually happens after I've come up from the subways here in New York.
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Here is the transit situation: • Subways: Aboveground train service was restored around 6 p.m.
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And it's not just the capsule hotels and crammed subways, but the nightlife, too.
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The board might even still have time to place ads in subways and buses.
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The subways serve the most riders and are in the gravest state of disrepair.
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"It is imperative that the subways run on the time," said spokesman Seth Stein.
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"Statistically insignificant uptick in crime hits NYC subways" doesn't make a very good headline.
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Some experts believe the subways need another $35 billion just to maintain adequate service.
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Opportunistic sex crimes aboard subways are not new, nor are they news to many women.
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In New York City, subways and buses were running with few delays, de Blasio said.
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On Tuesday, China also passed a new law banning "uncivilized behavior" in the country's subways.
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On Saturday, their efforts to visit museums were derailed by closed subways and barricaded roads.
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Trains and subways cause less pollution than cars and move people at far higher densities.
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It's not just cars — subways, buses, trains, taxis, Ubers, Lyfts all on the same platform.
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For most, subways are waystations to be tolerated, annoying intervals between origin and blessed destination.
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But since Tunnel Vision is a blog about subways, we'll keep it to just transit.
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But here's hoping that RPA's track record—for the subways' sake, at least—holds up.
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Streetcars and subways, unheard-of in 197773, were in all the major cities by 197763.
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Homes were leveled, subways flooded, and coastlines destroyed; 2 million people were left without power.
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People took nearly 653 billion rides on subways last year, the most in 265 years.
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For my route, I planned on using ferries and subways as my modes of transportation.
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A charge of $16 applied to drivers 24/7 could fund free buses and subways.
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To put it simply, last week was a living hell for New York City's subways.
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All subways and trains are running as scheduled, except the passageway where the incident occurred.
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Public places including buses, subways, and taxi stations are being disinfected on a daily basis.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, over the state of our subways and his handling of M.T.A. money.
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Rush-hour traffic on Tokyo subways is down just 2000 percent compared to mid-January.
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But Mr. Lhota said he was not contemplating changing the fare structure for the subways.
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She mocked him for his handling of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways.
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New York's subways are lucky to have as capable an operations manager as Mr. Byford.
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Except for a 6 train stop at East 33rd, no subways directly serve the avenue.
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It was imposed by the state to raise money, mainly to fix the ailing subways.
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AirDropping unwanted, explicit images — called cyber flashing — has become a problem for women on subways.
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I was pleasantly surprised by the reaction of people on the sidewalks, subways and buses.
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Here in New York, the subways are quiet, and the people riding them are suspicious.
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Here in New York, the subways are quiet, and the people riding them are suspicious.
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"These kids are taking two subways and a bus to get to practice," he said.
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The subways (and mass transit in general) are the veins and arteries of New York.
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The subway can help narrow that divide by doing what subways do best: increasing density.
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Starting in Los Angeles, body scanners are coming to subways and buses across the country.
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" — Archer Brinkley, 23, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan "I never travel without foam earplugs, especially on subways!
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Subways are the way many New York City young people get to school every day.
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Mr. Stringer compared the state of the city's buses to the deterioration of the subways.
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Subways were again running through the area, but more than 20 bus routes were affected.
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The New York subways serve an annual 1.757 billion riders, which presents numerous operational challenges.
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She said she wanted to make clear that the governor was responsible for the subways.
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The subways are falling apart because the authority deferred needed maintenance and upgrades for years.
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Chinese officials have scheduled a public transportation lockdown for the city's buses, ferries and subways.
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That action witnessed hundreds of marchers descending into the subways to enact mass fare evasions.
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Major cities like New York struggle with rodent infestations in parks, subways, and city streets.
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They have accompanied contestants onto buses, into subways, swiping in with MetroCards as they go.
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Editorial Notebook Among the cash-raising ideas for New York City's woebegone subways is Gov.
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Water doesn't stop flowing because subways, shops and towers are built over streams and ponds.
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"Cellphones distract us from the fact that the subways are 100 years old," he says.
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New York was under siege; no one wanted subways anymore — underground, overhead or anywhere else.
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Besides, Mr. Cuomo has said, he does not control the M.T.A., which operates the subways.
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The couple also took subways instead of cabs, packed lunches for work and skipped vacations.
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"We're not going to replace the subways—that's not our goal," a CitiBike spokesperson told VICE.
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In short, subways and streetcars are more convenient for riders, and LRT is cheaper to build.
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Finally, Evans says it would be a good idea to improve the ventilation systems within subways.
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I mean, I notice an extra pep in my step if the subways are running properly.
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And to get the subways up and running again, RPA's plan offers two major pathways forward.
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But Uber also replaces a lot of other transportation methods, such as subways, buses, bikes, etc.
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The MTA says that portions of above-ground subways have been restored as of 30 a.m.
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The fatality disrupted service on some subways lines, including the southbound 1, 2 and 3 trains.
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"The elevated bus merges existing, mature technology found in railroads, subways and buses," Mr. Wang said.
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"I know how to ride the subways," the Brooklyn-born senator from Vermont told the newspaper.
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It's pretty nice to have it while waiting in hot subways or when there's no wind.
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It didn't keep her out of the subways, but she is hoping her next move will.
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Ellen's is named for Mr. Sturm's mother, Ellen Hart-Sturm, a former Miss Subways beauty queen.
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He championed subways in the city, and presided over a government that sought to spend less.
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The technology is incredibly safe, with a record that's better than subways, buses, taxis, certainly bikes.
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The homelessness problem has left shelters at capacity and more people sleeping on streets and subways.
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Now, they lug their guitars and an amp onto the subways once or twice a week.
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The software determines which people should be quarantined or permitted to enter public places like subways.
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It was a quality assurance inspector — a Q.A.I. — whose job involves scouring the subways for nonconformities.
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"New York's subways, trains, and buses are our very lifeblood," he told The New York Times.
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However, the subways are operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, whose chairman is appointed by Gov.
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On the subways, much of the decrease in ridership has happened at night, between 9 p.m.
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"The only problem sometimes is walking up and down the stairs of the subways," he said.
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Critic's Pick The weather is a misery, the subways are a disaster, the news is unspeakable.
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For Mr. Miranda, Inwood is still home, and subways are still part of his travel diet.
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They are twin crises, he said, but only the subways have attracted attention and prompted Gov.
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The vast expanse of Venice's St. Mark's Square is all but empty, as are Milan's subways.
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Like handrails, poles on buses and subways are hard surfaces touched by a lot of people.
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Just like highways, subways have stubborn natural crowding limits, and naturally break down because of overloading.
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"Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen," begins one of the Interloping Panhandlers ever migrating through the subways.
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The MTA, New York City's transit authority, also banned them that year on buses and subways.
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City officials have said they expect the water commute to help alleviate congestion on the subways.
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More than 50 cities are working on over 1 trillion yuan ($150.8 billion) worth of subways.
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The mayor prefers what he describes as a "millionaires tax" to raise money for the subways.
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The subways are plastered with photos of sleeping people who are much more comfortable than you.
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This is in no way meant to pin the subways' most severe woes on its passengers.
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First Schaal and Myers channeled the rhythms of Brooklyn, where they live: subways, taxis, R&B.
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In the shorter term, the M.T.A. can make bus service a more appealing alternative to subways.
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The decline in public transportation income when all these people are not riding buses and subways?
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"We need Albany to do its job to finally fix the subways," Mr. de Blasio said.
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I come from the streets, I painted on subways, and I feel my work is important.
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Effectively, this means standing in for the mileage that is not covered by subways and buses.
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My life was so hard on NYC subways when my now 5 year old was a baby.
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The cult&aposs most notorious crime was the release of sarin gas on Tokyo subways in 1995.
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The MTA's history of scandals regarding what can and cannot be publicized on its subways is lengthy.
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They're ubiquitous in daily life, showing up everywhere from crowded subways to coffee shops and waiting rooms.
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Signs explained that subways and subway stations were being regularly sanitized to prevent the spread of germs.
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The outage halted subways and cut power to elevators, streetlights, and the iconic billboards in Times Square.
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Is there some masked Machiavellian mastermind lurking beyond the shadows of New York's subways and pizza parlors?
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It's time that public transportation like buses and subways did the same thing on a large scale.
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Reported sex crimes on the subways rose 19 percent last year, to 738 from 620 in 2014.
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If the subway dies, so does New York and right now our subways are on life support.
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There're also kiosks in New York's subways and on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority's network of trains.
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There's no way we can fix our subways and improve service without a new source of revenue.
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I started working with metal and doing permanent outdoor commissions, in airports, like LaGuardia, and for subways.
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The subways are up and running again, but there are a few service changes and some delays.
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Ads for a product called the Momwasher are sprinkled on billboards near subways in several different neighborhoods.
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Gradually, I avoided sitting between people on the subways because I was scared my thighs wouldn't fit.
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Chilean police and military were brought into Santiago to quell protesters and remove them from the subways.
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Soon she was singing solo outside Zabar's on the Upper West Side, and then in the subways.
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Ridership is down because the subways and buses are increasingly unreliable, thrusting more commuters into private vehicles.
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Unlike overstuffed subways or tourist attractions like, say, Times Square, there is no going around the sidewalks.
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The "travel" category is expansive, including everything from subways, taxis, parking, and tolls to airfare and hotels.
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Then, when a blizzard hit New York, Cuomo shut down the city's subways without telling de Blasio.
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Who decides the layouts of the streets, buildings, and subways we walk through each and every day?
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The mayors stuck to the cuts despite a surge in property values that the subways helped create.
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For riders, a dedicated subway corporation could bring faster relief from the constant delays and overstuffed subways.
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"The situation is not dissimilar to the subways, in that we're at a crucial moment," she said.
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Another snowstorm made its belated way in on Wednesday, delaying the subways, shutting down the schools. Me?
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Can you imagine how some people might be both soothed — and endlessly fascinated by — subways and trains?
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Choose a favorite photo and write about how it exemplifies many autistic boys' deep connections to subways.
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Editorial Each new revelation about the degradation of New York's subways seems more shocking than the last.
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They cited, as an example, men who masturbate by rubbing themselves against women on buses or subways.
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For any aspiring star, she said, working the subways keeps you sharp and serves as great exposure.
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Many compare it, in scope, cost and challenge, to the problems facing the New York City subways.
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Other subways, including systems in Washington and Boston, have also been plagued by problems with aging infrastructure.
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"The subways get slower and the neighborhoods have changed, but the job remains the same," he said.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday the police will enforce social distancing on subways.
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Here in New York, you can tell fall has returned because of the even more overcrowded subways.
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Why was Mr. Byford chosen to lead the subways and what did people want him to accomplish?
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Mr. Johnson, who is eyeing a run for mayor, has pushed for city control of the subways.
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The service debuts in New York at a time when subways regularly face delays caused by overcrowding.
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A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subways, said all bathrooms are cleaned daily.
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Unfortunately, this is an Eastside-Westside friendship so I call an Uber rather than take 12 subways.
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The subways serve about 35 times as many commuters as will be accommodated in the new station.
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They closed buses and subways, and canceled all flights and trains in and out of the city.
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The subways are owned by New York City and leased to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for operation.
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But an exercise that was merely tedious has become corrosive in the crisis afflicting the city's subways.
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A dog on the tracks on the Williamsburg Bridge delayed subways for over an hour last night.
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Guaranteeing that the subways properly benefit from congestion pricing is not just a matter for the governor.
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In May, the M.T.A. will introduce technology that could make "swiping" into the subways and buses faster.
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The subways are rickety, the schools are dysfunctional, the rent is too damn high and getting higher.
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The tolls are expected to raise billions of dollars for the subways and other regional transportation needs.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the subways, buses, and commuter rails, is a state-run agency.
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Our subways and harbors, our tunnels and bridges and factories -- all required at least as great a sacrifice.
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"I usually take subways but this morning it cost me 200 yuan one way by cab," he said.
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Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, controls the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the city's poor-performing subways and buses.
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The outage halted subways and cut power to elevators, street lights, and the iconic billboards in Times Square.
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In 2016-17 every kind of mass public transport became less busy: buses, subways, commuter trains and trams.
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Currently, only selected trains that run on Line 4 and Line 10 of Beijing's subways feature the audiobooks.
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It's considered polite to offer your seat to an elderly passenger (as subways often like to remind you).
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Based on the current forecast, Mr. de Blasio said he did not expect the subways to be closed.
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And look out for these and other "One Night" images in subways and on billboards around the world.
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Urban Engines, based in Los Altos, California, has its sights set on fixing packed urban streets and subways.
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You may have seen these before in the form of animated advertisements visible through the windows of subways.
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They've been banned from New York City trains, buses, and subways, as well as major airports and airlines.
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An average of 5.6 million people ride the New York City subways each weekday, according to official figures.
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New York (CNN)New York's commuter rail lines, subways and buses carry about 2500 million riders every day.
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The subways have been cleaned of graffiti, gleaming instead with advertisements that stretch the length of entire cars.
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Now that the subways had become a political liability, he seemed to want them fixed at a stroke.
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"There are days when you hate the subways and days when you meet some awesome people," he said.
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Circles of compassion can grow in the absence of everyday fear: safer subways make for an expanded conscience.
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Another push in the 1950s fizzled when financing for the subways was used to repair the existing system.
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Damaged infrastructure will need repair and replacement, including roads, highways, railways, subways, ports, pipelines, generators, and sewer systems.
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Streetcars and early subways were paid for by wealthy financiers, real estate speculators, and electric companies, among others.
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As it is today, so it was 100 years ago: Subways would continue to operate during construction work.
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He urged the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways, to use money meant for repairs after Gov.
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Here, the lawmakers who control the subways through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority continue to twiddle their thumbs. Gov.
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Subways get delayed for all kinds of reasons these days — electrical problems, sick passengers, debris on the tracks.
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It's one of the best kept secrets in New York for when the subways are overcrowded or stalled.
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And when subways rumble overhead, the resulting howl, particularly at Plymouth Street and Anchorage Place, can pause conversations.
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Like the old man in my home village, Ms. Hwang could not read signs on buses and subways.
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"Over the next decade and beyond, we have big plans for New York City's subways," Mr. Male said.
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The government has loosened restrictions on big but costly local government projects like subways and light rail lines.
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How about increasing the gas tax, reinstating the commuter tax, and adopting congestion pricing to fund the subways.
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Nationwide, almost 30 other cities have opened subways since Nanjing did, giving China the world's largest subway ridership.
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Mr. Byford, 54, an Englishman, had moved to New York from Toronto to run the buses and subways.
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Olga realizes she has become a pawn in an international human trafficking scandal and must beg in subways.
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Now, with the subways overwhelmed by soaring delays and fraying equipment, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov.
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In New York, people were overheard talking about the show in subways and bars, and at dinner parties.
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Over 220 artists and cultural workers have signed an open letter that decries over-policing of NYC subways.
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Pro-democracy protesters have attacked the legislature buildings and shut down critical infrastructure like subways and the airport.
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Too often, our school cafeterias are even more inefficient and unwelcoming than those crumbling roads, bridges and subways.
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Even New York City, which has a respected health department, filled its subways with posters showing big mosquitoes.
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The QC35II muffle the sounds of commuting, like subways and noisy streets, but everything is still largely audible.
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One of Darwinbox's clients is L&T, which is tasked with setting up subways in many Indian cities.
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" Quanqiuhaodianyingsoulou: "I suggest that this delegate go to the hospitals, schools and subways and have a look himself.
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The Long Island Rail Road and city subways were not affected, according to New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Here are five of the most pressing and vexing questions that loom in Albany: The subways need money.
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In the early 1980s, the New York City subways were forbidding, with robbers lurking in graffiti-covered cars.
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Public service announcements on subways remind riders about train etiquette and to say something if they see something.
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Other than hospitals, he thinks the ideal locations for copper are public transportation systems, like buses, airports, subways.
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Last night, the group performed "Frankie Sinatra" as well as "Subways," another track from Wildflower, during Primavera Sound.
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"I remember the subways back in the 50s and 60s with rats and everything," Ms. Katz, 70, said.
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Amtrak owns Penn Station, which services Amtrak trains, NJ Transit and LIRR commuter lines and New York subways.
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The Bangladeshi man accused of attempting a suicide bombing in the Port Authority subways terminal has been indicted.
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"We got our start playing in subways," Wenzl McGowen, one of the act's two lead sax players, says.
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It's a sparkling tribute to the ordinary, moving us deftly from subways to supermarkets, sidewalks to swimming pools.
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You'll have a subway cross another subway, but they've never really tried to make many layers of subways.
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For Clarence and many others, the subways and other transportation centers were shelter enough in the predawn hours Tuesday.
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Ford practiced a fantasy politics, promising subways that would never get built and wreaking havoc on the city's budget.
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"It's middle-class people, many of whom ride our subways, that will be in need of relief," Goldstein said.
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Even the hedge fund managers and cosmetic surgeons who don't ride the subways depend on the people who do.
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Click here to view original GIFThe above gif just looks like a subway, doing exactly the thing subways do.
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How many -- how many -- (CROSSTALK) HENNINGER: Let&aposs talk about the subways, because it&aposs a big element here.
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Ride-sharing in Uber, Lyft and cars like that is being used by people who are abandoning the subways.
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He can also ride the subways for free, and get 210% off at national parks, museums, movie theaters, etc.
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By the time William Bratton was named police commissioner in 2014, however, arrests in the subways began to climb.
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And if this was about raising money to fix the failing subways, there were other ways to do that.
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They erected walls and installed insulation, using a sophisticated membrane system to better control water, the scourge of subways.
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Cubic runs ticketing systems for subways and American Science & Engineering has X-ray technology to scan people and cargo.
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A transformer explosion at West 49th Street cascaded into a widespread outage that cut power subways, homes and businesses.
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In June, we spoke with the now-grown up 12-year-old the group sampled on their song, "Subways."
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Irene's center, which passed through Brooklyn and Manhattan — where subways had been closed and pantries stocked — was relatively calm.
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TfL, which oversees London's private car services, buses, and subways, defended the rules as necessary to ensure public safety.
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System-wide, the New York City subways descend into free-fall, with regular delays, signal issues, and horrific commutes.
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In the late nineteen-seventies, the sociologist Nathan Glazer had grown weary of riding New York's graffiti-covered subways.
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These volunteers patrol the subways, filling in as extra eyes and ears for police and occasionally making citizen arrests.
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There were 2140,21984 felony crimes reported on the subways in 225, down from 17,497 in 1990, Mr. Bratton said.
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Besides wireless data's obvious drawbacks—unreliability, it doesn't work in some buildings or subways, data caps are low, etc.
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Over the course of the 90s, New York City graffiti completed its move from the subways to the streets.
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As subways become increasingly overcrowded and delayed, we're guessing that your daily commute is becoming a more stressful affair.
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That the subways were, in 163, on starvation rations in need of emergency cash would seem to defy gravity.
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The capital charges of those subways which had built up real estate values, should be carried by real estate.
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The subways serve by far the most riders, have been underfunded and are in by far the worst shape.
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Earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to crack down on homeless people camped out in the subways.
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And, yes, I realize that both grazing cows and well-functioning subways sound far-fetched to today's New Yorkers.
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This is a loving, productive family, adjusting well to snow and subways (both the transportation and the sandwich shop).
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He didn't mind the noise of the elevated subways roaring over the Manhattan Bridge, but overnight visitors couldn't sleep.
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The head of the subways, Andy Byford, suggested surveying New Yorkers to find out why they ride without paying.
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In her 20s, she sold sex and robbed people to pay for crack, sleeping in abandoned buildings and subways.
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It also shows that more traditional transit like buses and subways are not doing enough to satisfy that demand.
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Give the subways sorely needed time to regain their strength, it says, by closing them from 12:30 a.m.
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The Thread RE: SUBWAYS Jonathan Mahler wrote about what it will take to fix New York City's subway system.
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The inland route through Downtown Brooklyn had more connections to subways and buses and would see much higher ridership.
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Missing. Her pursuit of a millionaire's tax — broadly popular with Democrats, but not Mr. Cuomo — to fix the subways?
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"We're not declaring victory today by any means," Sally Librera, the head of the subways department, told the board.
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But "better late than never" is a line we hear far too frequently when it comes to our subways.
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"We spend all of this money on the subways, and it won't work," he said, as his train arrived.
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"The subways have to be fixed," said Ms. Bartlett, who has written opinion columns about disability for The Times.
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Tell us in the comments, then read the related article about the New York City subways and their problems.
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Now, with the city's subways in crisis — with daily delays increasingly common and its equipment in dire condition — Gov.
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Mr. Wagner is also interested in the way different people come together on New York City subways and buses.
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At the Mets fund-raiser, Mr. Cuomo talked subways with the small group brought together in the Haugland suite.
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Mr. Byford was taking common-sense steps like raising speed limits on the subways and increasing training for operators.
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The company also hopes to lure riders away from buses or subways they find too crowded for their liking.
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Repeating in memory the way a parrot's cackled mantra hovers — random comments on subways, in waiting rooms, connect us.
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It was another governor who wrested control of the subways from the city: Nelson A. Rockefeller, in the 1960s.
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The authority oversees the subways and regional railroads, both of which have been plagued by problems in recent months.
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Andrew M. Cuomo recently declared a state of emergency on the subways and pledged to fix the mounting problems.
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Night-shift workers benefit from New York City's 24-hour subways, but not everyone's neighborhood is equally well served.
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The field includes Veronique Hakim, the president of New York City Transit, which operates the city's subways and buses.
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She ran on issues like voting reforms and fixing New York City's subways, and accused Cuomo of poor governance.
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The subways and streets of Washington, D.C., were full of grown men wearing knitted pink vagina hats on their heads.
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The storm dumped a torrent of water on the city, immediately unleashing a biblical-level flood on the underground subways.
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The subways are running at 50 percent capacity, just as the city opens its hotels and Airbnbs to 100,000 guests.
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Asahara had been on death row for masterminding a 63 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subways and other crimes.
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My wife just saw somebody complying with the rule about having your dog in a bag on the subways. pic.twitter.
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The subways and commuter rail lines serve all New Yorkers, of all ages, ethnic and racial groups, and income levels.
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Uber is also poaching riders from public transportation, which could make it more difficult to adequately fund subways and buses.
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For a while, I wore heels that pinched or unsupportive flats as I scaled subways stairs and navigated cracked sidewalks.
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On the plus side, trains tend to be a bit faster than most busses and smell somewhat better than subways.
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Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.
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Since February, the state-run Mass Transit Authority -- it operates the New York City subways -- has tracked approximately 163 incidents.
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Today, we see photos of people on subways around the world wearing surgical masks in an attempt to stay healthy.
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Disabled New Yorkers are everywhere in the city; riding subways, working in the mayor's office, attending meetings in the Flatiron.
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And for good reason: Premeditated mass murder of ordinary people in shopping malls, subways and hotels has become tragically common.
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His successor, King Salman, announced plans to build a ring road, subways and intercity trains to accommodate millions of worshipers.
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Big government outlays on subways, sewage systems and affordable housing are not just useful ways of propping up growth today.
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Both will feature the ability to confuse passerby on the streets and subways with the flickering lights on your ears.
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The idea being to transform "urban screens"—subways, building exteriors, and more—into communication platforms for citizens with migration backgrounds.
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Public transportation systems such as subways have thus seemed like a solution to reduce air pollution in the urban environment.
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Economic development, including the free movement of people and goods, cannot occur without adequate ports, airports, roads, bridges and subways.
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Women groped on subways; perverts exposing themselves; black drivers pulled over and terrorized by the police; officers murdered by snipers.
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Buses and subways operated free of charge, and local officials and mosque preachers helped mobilize government supporters to the streets.
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The New York City Transit Authority—the M.T.A.'s largest division, with fifty thousand employees—handles subways, buses, and paratransit.
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In June, we spoke with the now-grown up 12-year-old the group sampled on their new single, "Subways."
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Maraliz has taken her sonic healing to the streets, performing on subways and in airports to help combat noise pollution.
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Sixty million visitors on New York subways every year could certainly solve the empty room problem for a transportation startup.
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With the Capital One Venture, you can "erase" any purchase that counts as travel, including airfare, hotels, taxis, and subways.
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The other is the city's grinding, delay-prone subways, which compare unfavorably to the efficient Shinkansen bullet trains back home.
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Like many New Yorkers, she is tormented regularly by stranded subways, children's colds and far too many voice mail messages.
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Like lush workers, those denizens of the subways, they have not been passing down their skills to a new generation.
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It made me regret the two decades of my life I had spent riding New York City subways to work.
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Many of the forces plaguing the subways — crowds, delays and aging infrastructure — are also at play in suburban mass transit.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a sweeping agency that oversees the subways, buses, commuter railroads and key bridges and tunnels.
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What makes the newest framework potentially different, though, is the growing sense that the subways are in an existential crisis.
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Other innovations, too — telephones, electric lights, subways, running water, sewage lines, paved streets, even house numbers — transformed how Americans lived.
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The worst you did is make the subways run late — and the M.T.A. does that just fine without your help.
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BRIAN SEIBERT THEATER New York City is in the midst of a forced slumber — even the subways are scaling back.
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He seems determined to, if not fix the subways, at least arrest their decline, lest they blight his other achievements.
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Streets and subways, apartments and schoolyards are beautifully and faithfully drawn, as are humans of all ages, shapes and hues.
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"This weather obviously increases the risk to a vulnerable population," Andy Byford, who oversees the subways, said in a statement.
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The government has been subsidizing big infrastructure projects like bridges, subways and Istanbul's new airport, planned as the world's busiest.
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They understand that their cities are their great wealth creators and equality enablers and that cities don't work without subways.
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Until the subways are improved, traffic congestion will remain, but if ride shares mean a slower commute, so be it.
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David Duchovny, the New York-born actor, was just a teenager when the last of the Miss Subways was crowned.
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"Miss Subways" was inspired by Yeats's century-old verse play, "The Only Jealousy of Emer" (itself drawn from Irish mythology).
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Women are bombarded with ads across buses, in subways and on TV. "Born pretty?" reads one in the Seoul subway.
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As time passed, the price tag for fixing the subways grew, and the MTA's capital budget just couldn't keep pace.
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As the subways lurch, belch, teeter and break down, the number of black Escalades with tinted windows seems to multiply.
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Last week in Brooklyn, Miss Subways 13 was crowned with a wreath of plastic rats, troll dolls, and rhinestone unicorns.
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Thousands of signs on subways and buses encourage riders to wash their hands and avoid close contact with sick people.
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An ambitious plan to charge drivers in Manhattan to raise money for the subways could be in jeopardy, officials warn.
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HONG KONG — With its subways paralyzed and its shopping malls shuttered, Hong Kong was anxious and eerily quiet on Saturday.
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Like many startups, these buy-now-pay-later players have taken to New York&aposs subways to reach the masses.
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Technically, the state runs the subways, so his deferral to Cuomo makes sense in terms of structure, if not exposure.
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Sally Librera, Mr. Byford's top lieutenant and the first woman to lead the subways division, could be a top contender.
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Organized by Free CUNY and the People's Cultural Plan, protesters called to eliminate police presence in schools, subways, and museums.
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Nixon has positions on the state's subways, schools, public housing and criminal justice system, for instance, that contrast with Cuomo's.
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"If you like something happening in our subways or don't like it, you talk to the governor," the mayor continued.
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"We're just going to do story after story after story about how messed up the subways are," Mr. Jamieson said.
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I saw Figs advertised everywhere on billboards in Los Angeles, in subways in New York, and all over the internet.
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The city has been largely shut down: Departures are mostly barred, and subways, buses and ferries within Wuhan are suspended.
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"Imagine my shock to find out that the M.T.A. ran a service lousier than the subways and buses," he said.
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Reach let us canvass and record responses at community events, on the streets, on subways, in taxis, and even online.
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Many are too infirm to negotiate subways or buses, yet are not so disabled as to need Access-A-Ride.
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Riders seemed concerned whether the subways could be kept clean as a result of the large number of homeless riders.
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Every day those fees go uncollected means lost revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways and buses.
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Yet city streets are still dirty, she points out, while subways are rat-infested and prisoners live in sordid conditions.
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Early on, Peele drops in some text about the existence of abandoned tunnels, mines and subways in the United States.
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And one good way to build more subways would be to stretch our dollars as far as the French do.
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But Jon Weinstein, a transportation authority spokesman, said the utility company had not disputed its role in the subways' woes.
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Let's just hope they don't pull an Amazon and slap a bunch of Confederate flags on the subways for advertising.
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The city agreed to fork over half in April, but in the meantime, the subways continued to spiral into disarray.
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I think you know this, Uber's trying to get into the subway systems to pay for subways with your Uber app.
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Some subways were shut down, a travel ban has been put in place and residents have been urged to stay inside.
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Facial recognition has also been deployed in the subways, where police reportedly caught three suspects over a span of nine days.
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The authority's board recently approved $14.2 billion for the subways as part of a $29.5 billion, five-year capital spending plan.
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Trains in South Korea run with impeccable precision, the subways are spotless, and there's fast Wi-Fi onboard on every line.
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Most subways and roads are now open after service had been previously suspended, and people are getting back on their feet.
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The region anticipates "substantial MTA service changes," which would affect subways, buses, the Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road.
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"Gravity knives are dangerous weapons which do not belong on city streets and subways," spokesman Danny Frost said in an email.
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The subways, to some New Yorkers, feel like they're breaking down more frequently and at more increasingly inopportune times: rush hour.
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The show tours internationally and advertises in every conceivable format and location—including subways, billboards, brochures, TV spots, and the radio.
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Andrew M. Cuomo announced plans to hire 500 new police officers to help deal with homelessness and crime in the subways.
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"There are so many other things they could have spent that money on - like fixing the roads and subways," Paulino said.
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"Let's be clear, as New Yorkers, our lives revolve around the subways," Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference.
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"Cuomo say they need it to fix the crumbling subways, but he's not aware that our lives have crumbled," Malhotra says.
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The subways were also a dangerous place to be in the 1980s, and people avoided traveling in them at all costs.
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If you were impressed that your router came with three antennas, consider this: The network in the subways is getting 8,600.
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When my brother died, I was in Washington, D.C., sitting on one of those silent subways the city is known for.
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These subways will carry the bulk of the L train expats, yet are regularly overwhelmed with passengers in the morning rush.
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" The as-yet-untitled album will be The Avalanches' third, following last year's Wildflower, which included singles "Subways" and "Frankie Sinatra.
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Taxis are readily available, and several subways are within a 10-minute walk including the N, R, F and E lines.
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The struggles of New York's subways are seen as one of Mr. Cuomo's chief political vulnerabilities, including by Mr. Cuomo's allies.
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The other passengers are ambulatory but have disabilities — blindness, for example — that make taking subways or buses difficult, if not impossible.
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In San Francisco, BART officials are wiping down their buses and subways with disinfectants, while trying to reassure an anxious public.
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In San Francisco, BART officials are wiping down their buses and subways with disinfectants, while trying to reassure an anxious public.
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NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea has pushed legislators in Albany to pass a law banning repeat sex offenders from using city subways.
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NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea has pushed legislators in Albany to pass a law banning repeat sex offenders from using city subways.
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As the supply of subways and buses vanished around Times Square during the Monday morning rush, the demand for cabs increased.
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When New York's subways were inundated during Hurricane Sandy, the city could lean on its bus system (made possible by density).
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Though Mr. Cuomo easily won, the public seems to remember a tenet of Ms. Nixon's campaign: Mr. Cuomo controls the subways.
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While Indianapolis lacks subways, light rail or a sophisticated urban transport network, the city is crisscrossed with bike and walking trails.
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And, of course, New York needs a revitalized public transit system, with particular focus on improving the aging and neglected subways.
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"Contrary to what it says, there are no plans by the NYPD to shut down roadways and subways," the organization tweeted.
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The other workers stuck using transit are, of course, the men and women operating those subways, buses, trains, and street cars.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, seeking to work with the governor on areas of agreement like congestion pricing to fund the city's subways.
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"Enforcement of transit violations continues to be an important part of our work to further reduce crime within our subways," Sgt.
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He said the governor's office will work with the state legislature and New York City to ensure funding for the subways.
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The authorities have deployed hundreds of additional officers to the subways, provoking a debate about overpolicing and the criminalization of poverty.
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Since the subways have an ingenious drain network, Mr. Cuomo assumed that climate change and rising water tables were to blame.
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In New York, the price of a MetroCard swipe keeps rising, even as the subways and buses have descended into crisis.
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The subways understandably get the bulk of New Yorkers' attention, but the bus network also cries out for stronger municipal action.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency responsible for city subways, buses, and commuter rails, confirmed his departure in a statement.
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Though many New Yorkers believe that Mayor Bill de Blasio runs the subways, the agency is, in fact, controlled by Gov.
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About half of the budget goes to the subways, while the rest is allotted to buses, commuter rail, tunnels and bridges.
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The halting progress is emblematic of the country's larger transportation problems — its potholed roads, dysfunctional subways, dilapidated bridges and shabby airports.
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Mitchell L. Moss, a professor of urban policy at New York University, said mayors have approached the subways in different ways.
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But most agreed about the state of the subways: They are filthy, and it does not matter how they are cleaned.
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We need those extra police officers in the subways to increase the sense of safety for everyday strap-hanging New Yorkers.
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The city was a ferry wonderland in the 19th century, but that age faded in the era of subways and automobiles.
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If the subways are packed, try the PATH train, which can take you from Christopher Street to 213rd Street in Manhattan.
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Then a small sample of "Subways" was released, which got our hopes up and reignited the already-hazardous levels of hype.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, has moved to contain crises — such as homelessness, overcrowded subways and affordable housing — without recourse to Albany, when possible.
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So imagine what it's like coming to America from wealthy Asian nations, and their gleaming, polished, metronomically reliable subways, trains, and airports.
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Under intensifying scrutiny from the government, the cult plotted the larger sarin attack on the subways in Tokyo on March 20, 1995.
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In particular, metros and subways can provide helpful data, especially if users have to walk through a turnstile to access the train.
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Not in our streets or in our buildings, but below them, in the subways, commuter rail and mass transit of global cities.
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So most of the effective public transportation, which isn't buses, it's the subways and rails, they can't get to that last mile.
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Traveling at grade along the waterfront, the light rail would especially benefit people living and working at a distance from the subways.
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It can get to places that subways, buses and cars can't — that makes the service more reasonable than any location services today.
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We're connected in locations that once seemed far removed from the busyness of the world, like on subways, airplanes, and cruise ships.
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Wing wants to be the affordable e-bike for city residents who are sick of shady ride-hailing services and stalled subways.
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The subways are all messed up with the holidays and I end up having to walk across town in the bitter cold.
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The theory was that if prices went down, customers would use the service more and bypass rental cars, public buses, and subways.
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But that's not evident to most New Yorkers, who regularly vent their frustration with the city's subways and buses on social media.
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One of the biggest challenges of living in New York City — besides the unreliable subways — is the complete lack of personal space.
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With London growing larger and more dense, other transport solutions like subways, buses, and bikes are having to grow to meet demand.
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It&aposs a vote of no confidence in the subways, which have a huge responsibility to fix their infrastructure at enormous costs.
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The majority of tomatoes grown in Florida, for example, go to the food service industry—"to the McDonald's and Subways," Klee says.
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Elected leaders in New York often face blowback for every snow-related decision, including whether to close the schools and the subways.
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It became the region's largest engineering conglomerate, building parts of a road across the Amazon jungle, tunnels and subways in major cities.
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As hyper-dense urban environments fill in skylines, they need to be supported by increasingly complex subterranean infrastructure—electrical, sewers, subways, etc.
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Drawstrings are like reliable subways or coffee stirrers at the office — you don't really think too much about them until they're gone.
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A handful of cities that had done without subways, including Baltimore, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, embraced rapid-transit and light-rail projects.
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After hours of crowded sidewalks and delayed trains, agencies urged people to avoid taking underground subways as they attempt to restore power.
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The union said it started the competition to raise awareness about subways budget cuts that have led to a shortage of cleaners.
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Our subways, sewers and streets are home to the Norway rat — also called the brown rat — and it can carry dangerous pathogens.
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Ridership on subways, buses and railroads is up to 2.73 billion trips a year, almost double the number from 15 years ago.
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She went on to express her dismay at the complexities and inadequacies of New York subways compared with those in her country.
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Replace Subways with Strong Men who Carry You Around on Their Backs for Money They do this in other countries, we think.
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MTR also covers rail, buses and more, but it isn't clear if and when this payment option will be extended beyond subways.
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Cuomo recently declared a "state of emergency" for the system, promising to add $1 billion of state funds toward improving the subways.
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VICE reached out to Mark-Viverito to find out more about the idea, and other potential ways to fund the city's subways.
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Next generation iPhone owners in Japan may soon be able to use their smartphones to pay for train, subways, and bus rides.
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You'll earn 603x points on taxis, Uber/Lyft rides, subways, commuter trains, parking, tolls, rental cars, airfare, hotels, cruises, and tours.5.
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In the coming years, we'll wave or tap our cellphones, credit or debit cards to get on the city's subways and buses.
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Nowhere are the problems more urgent than in the city's subways, which have been crippled by constant breakdowns, soaring delays and overcrowding.
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No, New York City would not pay for half of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $800 million emergency plan to rehabilitate the subways.
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Morning commute: With the snowfall stopping well before rush hour, the subways ran without significant weather-related delays through the morning commute.
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"We continue to believe that gravity knives make our streets and subways less safe," Mr. Frost said in a statement on Friday.
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Mr. Byford plans to present his plan for speedier trains at today's meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the subways.
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Schools have been closed for more than a week and the typically crowded subways and buses were running at record-low capacities.
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For years, even as service deteriorated, the number of people riding the New York City subways went in only one direction: up.
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And we will have to telework, cancel meetings and sporting events, and consider ways to decrease potential contact on subways and buses.
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Better to leave aside your dating agenda in public places (like markets and subways), unless a conversation sparks up spontaneously and mutually.
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And for travel on public transportation like buses or subways in the U.S., the general risk of coronavirus is low, Gottlieb says.
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Chinese officials have closed transport into and out of the city of 11 million, including buses, subways, trains and the international airport.
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There is still room for investing in high speed railways and subways, which is a relatively new infrastructure being established in China.
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In fact, the governor has often left an impression that he believes he can manage New York's subways better than anyone else.
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I jokingly labeled it the "sport of Kings" when I lived in Brooklyn, but rat-watching on city subways still entertains me.
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But it was not until Thursday that Ms. Nixon's campaign had offered specific solutions, releasing its own plan to fix the subways.
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The authority's board approved a $29.5 billion capital plan last year to upgrade the agency's network of subways, buses and commuter railroads.
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The result of extravagant spending on subways and the like is that we end up with fewer of them than other cities.
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Like most New Yorkers, the team members at The New York Times's Metro desk have a lot to say about the subways.
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That's why the Metro desk has begun an all-out reporting push on the problems plaguing New York's subways and commuter lines.
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There are nearly 8.5 million rides on the system every day; if we speak with one voice, we can save our subways.
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Editorial The save-the-subways plan announced this week by Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, contains no miracle solution.
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There is still room for investing in high speed railways and subways, which is a relatively new infrastructure being established in China.
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Even so, many riders say the program's on-time performance is dismal enough to make the subways seem like a Swiss watch.
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Models wore the designer&aposs forthcoming fashions while walking through vintage subways at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
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Trains, subways and buses were canceled, many schools were closed, and thousands were forced to stay home from work across the country.
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He is one of the most powerful people in New York City, overseeing the region's sprawling network of subways, buses and railroads.
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The subways slowed down, Chris Christie took some time to relax at the beach, and a 47-year-old murder was solved.
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Beginning next month, workers will check more than 20,000 public restrooms, in subways, parks, community centers, public gyms and underground commercial arcades.
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"It's double," said Pedro Vargas, 32, a former racehorse jockey from Venezuela who had been living in the subways for three years.
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The company didn't add new buttons for each service because it was already getting quite crowded with buses, subways and ride-sharing services.
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According to the Korea Times, sex crimes on trains rose 84 percent between 2012 and 2014; half of those cases occurred on subways.
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And some transit experts balked at the $325 million price tag, noting the ferries carry less people and require more subsidies than subways.
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Another aspect of the extreme commute are the various modes of transportation taken, including interstate buses, long-distance bike rides, ferries, and subways.
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By late 2020, all bus routes, subways stations and Staten Island Railway stops will be set up, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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For decades, Bromptons have been carried onto subways, buses, and cars by multimodal commuters needing a solution for the first and last mile.
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You can have a good time riding the subways… It's used for fun in Gabon—people mix it with pot and smoke weed.
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The six-day strike by SEPTA's 4,700 city transit workers idled subways, buses and trolleys that provide almost 1 million rides each weekday.
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The MTA says it won't start phasing out the MetroCard until 2023 — 30 years after it first replaced tokens for subways and buses.
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"For those of us who have had a Hillary Clinton moment in subways," joked senior vice president of ads and commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy.
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Recent studies show that ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft tend to poach riders away from public services like buses and subways.
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In lower Manhattan, some do that, most go off the subways and MTA Buses -- the regular city transit to make their way home.
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The streets and subways were rife with random violence, racial tension and riots, a Central Park that was dusty and dangerous and abandoned.
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From the crowded subways of our daily commutes to the aisles of local supermarkets, we've always got our eyes peeled for fashion inspiration.
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Uber's CEO has said he wants to find a way to integrate public transportation like subways and buses into the app as well.
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GIGOT: That&aposs not because of the ride services as much as it is -- FINLEY: Because they are breaking -- subways are breaking down.
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" New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson weighed in on Facebook, writing: "The lack of accessibility in our subways is literally killing people.
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The company announced on Thursday that it is releasing an update that is supposed to show how crowded buses, subways, and trains are.
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I just don't want new subways that cost billions of dollars per mile, and I don't want high-speed rail at $100 billion.
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The mayor was criticized by Governor Andrew Cuomo and other New Yorkers, some of whom were stuck in subways underground for an hour.
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Delays and cancellations on buses, trains and subways have become common, even as demand has swollen because of the influx of foreign visitors.
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Cuomo, who controls the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the public agency that runs the subways, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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And besides, if you bike to work you spend less time in the subways, where apparently it's not particularly healthy to breathe either.
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It's particularly tough to be a claustrophobe on an island of skyscrapers, where the vast majority of people rely on elevators and subways.
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Yet overconfidence has caused people to follow their receivers' directions without question, driving into lakes and subways, and getting into sometimes fatal accidents.
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Subways are running on regular schedules, but expect crowds at the 77th Street station on the 6 line, near the parade's end point.
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Instead, the immersive audiovisual experience has its origins in the mundane: people on subways and buses or in cafes looking at their phones.
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New York's subways have long been the great equalizer of America's largest city, the democratizing force in a metropolis of otherwise dizzying inequality.
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In June, Governor Cuomo declared a "state of emergency" for the city's subways, which were increasingly become a hellscape of delays and overcrowding.
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It's this strange place where all the subways meet, so it kind of creates this really strange gathering of all walks of life.
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In 1904, its first year of operation, 3 million people rode the subways; that's the ridership, he said, in just one week now.
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But the problem is, for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who take the L train every day, the subways are already bad.
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He announced that a system-wide study is under way to determine what it will take to make New York's subways fully accessible.
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That means on crowded subways, buses, trains, or streets, your movement isn't affected by your stuff; instead, the bag keeps a low profile.
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Penn Station is a major transportation hub in New York, serving Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, the Long Island Rail Road and MTA subways.
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It's a Look With the subways faltering and Citi Bikes expanding, biking is now an established part of New York City's commuting culture.
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Kendall Jenner's taking a stand in NYC ... no taxis, Ubers or subways on her 23rd birthday, at least while the sun's out, anyways.
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Fortunately, urban forests appear to be at the point the subways reached decades ago, before transit policymakers decided that maintenance could be deferred.
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"I was thinking I might create some of the underground levels in NYC subways if that doesn't get me in trouble," he said.
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Mr. Cuomo has been on a rampage to "blow up" the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which controls the city's flailing subways and commuter trains.
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The resulting report noted that "in every interview conducted," the condition of airports, subways, roads and trains was cited as a major challenge.
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But today comes very welcome news: Subway speed limits are going to increase, according to Andy Byford, the head of the city's subways.
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Taxis are readily available, and several subways are within a five-minute walk including the N, R, A, C, E and 6 trains.
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She wasn't fluent in English, she wasn't familiar with American culture, and she didn't know basics like how to navigate subways or buses.
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Andy Byford, the transit executive hired to rescue New York City's floundering subways, has clashed with the governor over management of the system.
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His first priority, he said, was to ensure that the subways run more efficiently by maximizing the capability of the existing signaling system.
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Each morning, he left home at 5:30 to board a tram, two subways and, finally, a bus to reach the city limits.
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With our subways in crisis, advocates are trying to ratchet up political pressure to fix the system by highlighting the most nightmarish journeys.
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Much of the decline in ridership occurred in Manhattan, where the subways, though troubled in their own right, are at least readily available.
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Its opening comes at a time of skyrocketing construction costs, diminished resources devoted to infrastructure, and deteriorating subways and airports in New York.
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With CLT, those buildings could be taller, creating more housing close to trains, subways and buses, and a more compact urban development pattern.
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After six years of tiny apartments, packed subways, and a frenetic pace, I'd had my fill of NYC and desperately wanted to leave.
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All-too-familiar problems with New York City's overloaded subways have now made their way aboveground to the city's newest transit option: ferries.
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He sought revenge by bankrupting the company, and then insisting any future subways be built by the city, rather than by private interests.
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In this instance, the governor still controls the money — through the authority — but as the subways sputter, that responsibility can be an albatross.
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That's arguably not bad compared with the 5,800 fires that the M.T.A. recorded back in 1981, when the subways were at their nadir.
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Buses, planes, subways, and ferries were shut down in the city of some 11 million people, a measure without precedent in its scale.
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Andrew M. Cuomo to connect the millions of on-the-go New Yorkers, commuters and tourists who rely on the subways every day.
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Trains, subways and buses were canceled, many schools were closed, and thousands were forced to stay home from work across the country. 27.
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Under the last fare and toll increase, in March 2015, the base fare for subways and buses rose by a quarter to $2.75.
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Harassment has long been a problem on subways, in part because many strangers are packed together on narrow cars, sometimes for long periods.
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"No question, operating in New York is ridiculously expensive," said Mr. Boyce, whose company designs and builds communications equipment for New York subways.
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The transit agency said it usually took 24 hours to get all its buses, trolleys and subways up and running after a shutdown.
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Expect anything: Mr. Wegman's familiar Weimaraners and his less familiar grown children; overlong bits of wry experimental filmmaking; gleeful stints in the subways.
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If Google Maps was better at flagging even just scheduled maintenance, the subways and buses here would be so much easier to navigate.
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Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have a good plan to pay to fix the subways, but how it is carried out matters.
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New York City Transit paid $6.2 billion in wages and benefits for the 44,256 workers and bosses who operate the subways and buses.
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And, of course, Lower Manhattan used to be served by elevated lines that, when removed, were never replaced as promised by new subways.
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Andrew M. Cuomo formulates a congestion pricing plan that would not only reduce traffic, but also raise money to modernize the city's subways.
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Haring was known for inserting his work into the urban landscape of New York City without authorization, tagging subways and buildings quickly and surreptitiously.
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And the merely lazy, too, might like it: you could wear an Archelis on crowded subways, or while standing in line at the DMV.
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Funding the MTA - the state agency that operates two commuter rail lines, buses, bridges, tunnels and the city's subways - has always been a challenge.
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Taxi Fabric has even tried its hand at auto rickshaws, and even plans to work on buses, trains and underground subways in the future.
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Yet, in terms of detail, the retired NYPD detective's transit plan online is surprisingly thorough, outlining a "three-point plan" to fix the subways.
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"The three of us live in New York, and, like pretty much everyone in New York, have been frustrated by the subways," he said.
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Subways throughout the city were affected by the outage, with some lines skipping stations that lacked power and even lines in other boroughs diverted.
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The NIS warning covered a large number of possible targets, including "subways, shopping malls, exhibition centers, power plants" as well as possible cyber attacks.
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Behavioral screening could help to protect metro systems and subways, as well, former Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Robert Liscouski told "Squawk Box" on Tuesday.
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One recent visitor from France remarked to Gulliver that he'd never again complain about the Paris Métro after riding on a few American subways.
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The ban has enhanced public safety, and ending it now amid highly publicized slashing incidents in our city's streets and subways is not advisable.
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From the stalled subways that delay our commutes, to the crumbling roads and bridges that put our families at risk, this crisis impacts everyone.
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So there's a question of whether the scooters will be used to simply get to and from these subways, or for entire commuting purposes.
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And in the end, the only likely effect would be to transfer the risk of attack to other crowded areas — subways, train terminals, markets.
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Metro is far from alone in falling behind, with subways in nearby New York and Boston also facing billions of dollars in delayed maintenance.
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Protesters, many wearing blue berets emblazoned with yellow stars symbolizing the EU flag, poured out of subways and buses for the last-ditch effort.
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Traditional signalling, known as fixed block, divides the track into segments, or blocks—on New York's subways, they're usually about a thousand feet long.
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It also helps explain the proliferation of ear-budded zombies walking the streets, riding buses and subways, fixing the world with their blank stares.
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The problem of exploding hoverboards is serious enough that hoverboards have been banned from college campuses, airlines and subways and buses in New York.
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Until we see proof of such establishments, we regard them as urban legend, like alligators in subways and rats the size of subway alligators.
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This led to a body of work where I was beginning to explore ideas of transition, by situating figures in airplanes, subways, and escalators.
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Looking to escape their screens, traffic, messed-up subways, their bosses, and national politics, many are finding solace in a nearby tent or cabin.
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Andrew Byford, the transit chief in Toronto, was named on Tuesday to take over the management of New York City's ailing subways and buses.
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John Raskin, the executive director of the Riders Alliance, an advocacy group, said Mr. Cuomo had not made much progress in fixing the subways.
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The newest plan embraces the twin goals of easing Manhattan's choking traffic while raising badly needed revenue for the city's failing subways and buses.
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Andrew Cuomo and state legislators are nearing agreement on a more than $170 billion budget that could help the subways and reform election campaigns.
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But the final version still needs to ensure that a clear majority of revenue goes toward the city's subways, rather than suburban rail lines.
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But there is also pointed writing not just about politics but about subways and orgasms and woolly underwear and air conditioning and retirement homes.
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Developers are betting that the area can overcome its reputation for being far from subways and lacking stores, and become a more typical neighborhood.
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Digital payments, the government figured, could better track revenue and lead to efficient tax collection for money to pay for roads, subways and ports.
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Here's what else is happening: • New York City subways have the worst on-time performance of any major rapid transit system in the world.
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In recent years, New York's subways have had one of the worst on-time rates of any major rapid transit system in the world.
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Ms. Nixon argued strenuously that Mr. Cuomo had allowed the subways to deteriorate, saying he "stole hundreds of millions" of dollars from the system.
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Mr. Cuomo promised to fix the subways and now has a rival for his office, Cynthia Nixon, blaming him for the system's deteriorating service.
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The New York Post portrayed Husain as "one of the masterminds behind the anarchist group that organized the rampage through the subways" in January.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "New York this month will host its second annual Miss Subways Pageant, where contestants profess their love for the city's mass transit.
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The police also started "The Call Is Yours," a public service campaign on subways, buses and social media encouraging survivors to report their experiences.
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On Monday morning, as New York schools, restaurants and shops stayed dark and with subways eerily quiet, the stock exchange lit up like normal.
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On Monday morning, as New York schools, restaurants and shops stayed dark and with subways eerily quiet, the stock exchange lit up like normal.
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That's invaluable not just to Tencent and Alibaba but also to city planners seeking precise information about where to build roads, bridges and subways.
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They fought over standing up to President Trump, the subways, releasing their tax returns, health care policy and corruption convictions in the Cuomo administration.
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In New York City, for example, at least 3,193 people are sleeping on the streets and subways, often in close contact with each other.
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THE BOOK REVIEW The New & Noteworthy column on May 20 misstated the marital status of David Duchovny, whose novel "Miss Subways" was recently published.
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We wish the governor was less obsessed with the mayor bailing him out and more obsessed with doing his job to fix the subways.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subways, made it illegal to move between cars in 2005 as part of a crackdown on crime.
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New, upscale coffee shops and guesthouses have begun to appear and are likely to flourish as the subways make Chinatown more accessible to tourists.
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"We are heartened to see these new resources and focus to reverse the deteriorating state of our subways," Mr. Sarle said in a statement.
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Mayor Edward I. Koch famously rode the subways to ask "How'm I doin'?" and waged a public campaign against subway graffiti in the 1980s.
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At some point, Lisa Levy, Miss Subways 2017, arrived carrying a clear plastic handbag with L train stress balls that she sells for $3.
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Andrew M. Cuomo to add hundreds of additional officers to the subways, fueling a debate about overly aggressive policing and making poverty a crime.
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Four years ago, an advertising campaign unveiled by the city in subways presented images of toddlers berating their hypothetical teenage mothers for conceiving them.
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Subways were shut down and taxis proved impossible to find, so I made my way down Broadway against a sea of people evacuating uptown.
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Mr. Schumer called on the agency to speed up the tests and deploy the machines in New York City subways, bus stations and airports.
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"I question whether it is going to make the subways better," Ms. Malale said as she rode an F train on a recent afternoon.
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Many cities have overhauled subways and buses to attract more riders, and redesigned streets to make more room for cyclists, pedestrians and green spaces.
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In our show, there's a 1920 proposal [that] said they should build a number of subways that would have been double what we have today.
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Recent studies have also tracked the microbiomes of Boston and New York's subways, relying on samples taken from train surfaces or the surrounding indoor air.
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Zheng was one of five women detained by police in 21990 for handing out stickers against the sexual harassment of women on subways and buses.
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But in New York, as subways become more crowded and more prone to breaking down, and buses get slower, will people abandon transit for carpooling?
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The report echoes similar findings in recent years that show how various means of public transportation, primarily buses and subways, can be hotbeds of bacteria.
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A man on the Moscow subways is painted entirely in gold as he celebrates a victory by the Russia team over Spain on July 214.
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As a result, the flow of money into subways, bridges and the like may increase slightly, says Yao Wei of Société Générale, a French bank.
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Another issue in New York is whether riders would be able to use MetroCards on the streetcar and transfer to buses or subways for free.
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The subways may be a total shitshow, but at least it looks like MTA buses are on time—just driverless and going the wrong direction.
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So, why don't other big cities areas have these wonder chair lifts toting humans through the air instead of herding them underground into aging subways?
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And we're very open to partnerships with transportation entities, cities, regulators, to include public buses and include trains and subways ultimately in the Uber app.
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Music is crisp and clear even over the loud streets of New York, a roaring plane, and the rumbling subways I've been using them on.
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Two body-positive yoga teachers have decided to take a stand against all of the "body shaming ads" that plague the New York City subways.
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Evans says the pollution levels in Toronto's subways are higher than he'd like them to be, but it's not deterring him from riding the subway.
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Only 219 riders were issued summonses last year for having unauthorized animals on subways and buses, down from 261 in 2014, according to the police.
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The A, C, E subway lines were all evacuated and subways bypassed Times Square and Port Authority stations to allow police to conduct a sweep.
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In brief, New York's subways are in no short supply of two things: deep-seated, systemic problems and people who propose ways to fix them.
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Shutting down the subways overnight would allow for more routine maintenance, which other cities that do close temporarily are better able to complete, Barone argued.
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What we are left with is raising the speed limits on subways in New York City from 15 MPH to something a bit more reasonable.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority outlined plans on Monday to replace the flimsy yellow cards, which were introduced in the New York City subways in 1993.
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There were few skyscrapers and many mom-and-pop stores (alas, no longer the case), and the subways and the river were close at hand.
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Now electronic billboards are everywhere: along highways, on the side of buildings, outside bus shelters, on public benches, and in airports, elevators, subways and malls.
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Dame filed a lawsuit in June against the MTA, which did not approve the company's ads to run in New York City subways and stations.
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It's easy to get to as well: the A, C and G subways stop in Clinton Hill, about a 45-minute ride from Midtown Manhattan.
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New York in the 1970s was symbolized in popular culture by Archie Bunker, graffiti-laden subways and "The Warriors," the cult film about rampaging gangs.
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So now the latest frontier in the quest to carve out more parkland is the city's subterranean level — home to subways, sewage lines and rats.
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The crisis in our subways and on our streets will continue, and New Yorkers will continue to demand action from Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers.
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The focus of today's chat will be our subways; the next of the monthly cybergatherings will address your concerns about city buses and paratransit programs.
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So the real audience for Tuesday's hearing is not just the head of the subways, Andy Byford, and the M.T.A. board members in the room.
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That is, rather than the state and the city paying off Amazon, Amazon should be required to invest in the subways, schools and affordable housing.
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Still, every line has improved as part of a broader effort to make trains run faster, said Sally Librera, the head of the subways department.
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They note that the ferries do not accept MetroCards, preventing free transfers to subways or buses, which reduces their appeal to commuters with tight budgets.
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Via started in 2013 with five sport utility vehicles shuttling groups of commuters back and forth from the Upper East Side, where subways are crowded.
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Residents have also questioned whether the $100 million could be better spent on more pressing needs, such as fixing the subways or helping the homeless.
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But the new restrictions have done nothing to stop overcrowding on London's trains, buses, and subways, where social distancing remained impossible during rush hour Tuesday.
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As more workers are now commuting within their home boroughs, buses, rather than the Manhattan-centric subways, have become increasingly vital lifelines, the report says.
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They talked about how they had modernized their subways — including, in Paris, bringing driverless trains to one of the Metro system's oldest and busiest lines.
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To prepare for overnight stretches of jostling, he rode the subways all night, a more daunting endeavor in 1977 when crime levels were much higher.
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Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Albany lawmakers are at last talking about how to pay for vital improvements to the city's crumbling subways.
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The authority has also posted thousands of signs on subways and buses encouraging riders to wash their hands and avoid close contact with sick people.
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That means pressing on with Mr. Byford's decade-long turnaround plan, "Fast Forward," an ambitious proposal to modernize the subways and overhaul the signal system.
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The Chinese authorities on Thursday morning closed off Wuhan by canceling flights and trains leaving the city, and suspending buses, subways and ferries within it.
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The new line is expected to offer long-needed relief to subways on the East Side of Manhattan, the most crowded lines in the nation.
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Cuomo, touted as a potential Democratic challenger to President Donald Trump in 2020, has also come under pressure to fix New York's problem-plagued subways.
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In the early 1970s, the dawn of what became known as hip-hop, he helped shape the art of graffiti on New York City subways.
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Ms. Newman won two Tony Awards, including one in 1962 for her performance in "Subways Are for Sleeping," a musical co-written by Mr. Green.
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Civil defense measures and shelter in Seoul's subways can mitigate some of the North's casualty-producing barrage on the city of some 25 million people.
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With low taxes, an efficient government and private businesses running the city buses and its spotless subways, this place is a libertarian dream come true.
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Aging subways in other cities, like London and Boston, are also struggling with overcrowding, and Tokyo famously uses staff to jam passengers onto crowded trains.
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Amazon could have also anticipated the infrastructure and tax forgiveness uproar (ever ride the subways or pay taxes there?) and started the negotiations with that.
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But congestion pricing offered the best option, he said, to raise money for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the subways, buses and commuter railroads.
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An annual survey in February found that about 403,240 people were living on sidewalks, in subways, in parks and in isolated areas, like the embankment.
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"My daughter traveled recently and has been on the NYC subways and around tons of students, so is anxious about exposing my mother," she says.
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Donald Joseph White, considered a legend before "street art" became popular, turned New York City's subways into rolling canvases of color, humor and social commentary.
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City leaders and transit advocates say commuter trains could be put into service to fill transit gaps and reduce congestion on subways, buses and roads.
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The placards, Mr. Pearlstein said, have essentially created a large class of privileged city workers, many of whom would otherwise be taking buses and subways.
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We want to create the city infrastructure to those subways, and as we scale, we'll also be able to offer things like reduced fare programs.
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The crowds are always there, from the first train to the last train of the Yamanote Line, the Chuo Line, subways and various private railways.
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And after last weekend's release of second single "Colours," and today's long-awaited drop of "Subways," it feels like things might finally be on track.
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So does the Metropolitan Transportation Authority: On Monday, buses, subways and other transit systems will run on a Saturday schedule with a few planned service changes.
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All that snow's done a fair bit of damage to the region's transportation networks, closing down subways, slowing car traffic, and canceling more than 13,000 flights.
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The Second Avenue New York subway stop cost $2.5 billion to build, and Citylab reports that subways cost between $200 million and $900 million per mile.
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Pulinario entered prison in 2200, when New York City's subways still took tokens instead of MetroCards, and before anyone had heard of Google, Facebook, or Twitter.
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"Travel" is defined broadly, and includes everything from taxis, parking, tolls, subways, and Uber rides, to airfare, hotels, Airbnbs, cruises, tours, car rentals, and much more.
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You do see it on planes, you don't see it on subways, you don't see it in coffee shops, despite what commercials will have you believe.
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What has remained common ground between the two branches of government is that if the state can't fix the subways, then the city should step in.
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But not all of us are lucky enough to escape the concrete heat and stinky subways as our bodies slow down, swelling in the humid air.
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For many of us, the unreliability of the subways and buses results in docked wages, extra child care costs, lost jobs, evictions and other grave consequences.
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Look into where the laundromats, parks and grocery stores are, what the the crime rate is and where the nearest subways or bus stops are. Visit.
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Hwang tells Creators that a big influence on the project is South Korea's internet connectivity, amongst the fastest in the world and ubiquitous, even in subways.
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Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the area just north of Long Island City, made mention of the subways in her tweet lambasting the decision.
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The system claimed to see a decrease in accidents (apparently a bunch of people get seriously hurt every year by other fast-moving people in subways?).
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It was the best of the Jersey Shore, without any of the traffic jams or stalled subways or tour groups or stench that traditionally accompany summer.
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Malloy also argued that the high state and local taxes go toward things like subways in New York and an extensive train system in New Jersey.
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"Travel" includes everything from subways, taxis, parking, and tolls to hotels and airfare, and dining including bars, restaurants, delivery services like Seamless and Grubhub, and more.
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Whether someone's riding Amtrak, the subways or the L.I.R.R., they should be able to enter the complex and get to their platform as quickly as possible.
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Was it really possible that hundreds of vital machines, the main revenue engines of the subways, could be repaired by only one person at the M.T.A.?
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No subways serve Marine Park, though some commuters take the B3 bus across Avenue U to East 16th Street, where there is a Q train stop.
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In Japan's previous experience with sarin gas in 1995, members of a doomsday cult killed 12 people and made thousands ill in attacks on Tokyo subways.
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Initially, de Blasio was quiet—until Cuomo and the MTA blamed the city for not chipping in more to get the subways up and running again.
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But to best outline its details, the plan can be divided into three major sections: the 23th Street corridor; the Williamsburg Bridge corridor; and the subways.
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When Joe Lhota was first appointed to chair the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in 22, New York City's subways were notably better than they are now.
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Subways to remain open According to de Blasio, the goal is to strike a balance between restricting the spread of the disease while maintaining people's livelihoods.
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He promoted Sally Librera, the first woman to lead the subways department, and hired Sarah Meyer as "chief customer officer" to focus on communicating with riders.
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"New Yorkers have been demanding that our leaders fix the subways; instead, they have decided to break Uber," said Josh Gold, a spokesman for the company.
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Although neither man commutes to work, their excursions to the theater and opera mean they often return home late at night on sluggish, under-construction subways.
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And as ever, there are no easy solutions for taking care of the thousands of mentally ill people sleeping on the streets and in the subways.
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The new system will replace the MetroCard, but MetroCards will not be phased out until 2023 — 20163 years after they replaced tokens for subways and buses.
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He met many Qaeda leaders, including Saleh al-Somali, the chief of external operations, who planned an attack on New York's subways that the F.B.I. thwarted.
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In New York City, transit officials said that the storm was expected to have limited impact on the subways, though there were delays with the buses.
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"You have people who target people in the subways," he said, adding that the high recidivism rate for such crimes shows that existing laws were ineffective.
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The 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, F, L and M subways lines make full- or part-time stops in the neighborhood, as do PATH trains.
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The M.T.A., which oversees New York's subways and buses, released a report this month saying that about 222,210 people take the subway each day without paying.
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After decades of performing on television in Ecuador, renowned magician Olmedo Renteria — aka Olmedini El Mago — showcases his talents to audiences commuting on the city's subways.
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In a city like New York, where cars crawl along congested streets and subways lollygag on old tracks, a "walk to work day" can sound ideal.
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In contrast, West Coast cities experienced most of their growth during the automobile era of the mid-20th, when subways were seen as out of style.
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Some areas of New York City Transit, which oversees subways and buses, use timecards with mechanical punch-clocks, technology that dates to the early 2646th century.
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Refreshingly, Egan and her characters turn their backs on a Manhattan interior defined by subways and skyscrapers, Broadway and Wall Street, to look outward to sea.
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Mr. Cuomo said the agency, the Division of Human Rights, also planned to run ads on New York City subways to raise awareness about pregnancy discrimination.
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Andrew M. Cuomo nominated Mr. Lhota to serve as chairman and chief executive of the transportation authority, which runs the city's subways, buses and commuter railroads.
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On Monday, thousands of them had vanished from Mexico City, their presence in subways, supermarkets, and around school campuses only a sliver of their usual number.
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For New Yorkers, busking dance troupes on the subways have been a spectacle (or scourge) since the 303s, when they first began appearing on moving trains.
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The real test will be whether the virus flares again when children return to classrooms and workers to factories, and commuters start taking buses and subways.
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Asked whether the overtaxed subways could handle an influx of Long Island commuters, Ms. Hakim said she was confident the system could handle the extra ridership.
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Mr. Wright said that it was unclear what Mr. Cuomo planned to do about the subways, but he hoped that he would seek new funding sources.
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Masks are thought to slow the spread of disease when they are worn by sick people in crowded places like emergency rooms, offices, subways and buses.
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Funds are also consistently diverted to subsidize subways, trolley rides, ferry boats, junkyard removals, and other "projects" that wouldn't receive approval in the normal appropriations process.
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About 1403 million people ride the line each day — more than the number of daily riders on Washington's and Chicago's subways combined, according to the authority.
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"I remember a decade ago when you could more or less count on the subways to be on time most of the time," Mr. Emig said.
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"If that's the case, then the real problem is you're not going to be able to do anything significant to fix the subways," Mr. Cuomo said.
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After "Precious" made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, Ms. Sidibe experienced fame without fortune, riding subways and buses to red carpet events.
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While the car is bound to remain central, large investments in public transit — subways, light rail, buses — could begin to reshape how Los Angeles gets around.
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"Whenever there is a problem with the subways, the city just throws up its hands or sits on its hands," Mr. Lhota said in an interview.
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Mr. O'Neil lauded the decision not to close the subways after Monday's attack, but said that evacuating the Port Authority, while necessary, created a new risk.
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For years, the region had planned and made improvements to roads, subways, trains and bike lanes to accommodate a major corporation like Amazon, Ms. Backmon said.
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For New Yorkers, busking dance troupes on the subways have been a spectacle (or scourge) since the 1980s, when they first began appearing on moving trains.
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Back then, some slept on subways; others stayed in "cardboard condos," hidden away under scaffolds and near major transit terminals—whatever it took to stay warm.
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Slots for posters started recently being replaced on NYC subways by plasma screens, which will soon add quite a new dimension to the city visual culture.
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Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, which is in charge of subways in the city, and the Federal Aviation Administration, for comment.
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The first place we look for inspiration is the le catwalk, where outfits inhabit a fantasyland free of subways, inclement weather, and budget limitations of any kind.
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New York Comic Con is currently taking over Manhattan, which means the city's streets and subways are packed with more mutants (and more stranger things) than usual.
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Founded in 1979, the Guardian Angels were supposed to be a counter to the muggings and assaults that back then were commonplace on the streets and subways.
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This was really striking to me: I don't live in New York, so I take whatever chance to pity New Yorkers for the state of their subways.
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Kate McKinnon's Saturday Night Live cold open — that's the sketch before the credits — lampooned the real-life Hillary Clinton's recent struggles riding the New York City subways.
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The courts may be backlogged and the subways hopelessly delayed, but when it comes to rounding up sex workers, America's largest city is nothing if not efficient.
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We'll have to see if e-cig batteries, like hoverboards, will soon be banned from subways, planes, colleges, and anywhere else that isn't keen on sudden explosions.
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In 2013, he appeared as a model in a Gap "Make Love" advertisement that was posted in New York City subways and later defaced with racist graffiti.
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Then we had all these people who said all sorts of crazy things — the subways would stop running, the jails would get emptied, the moon would fall.
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The New York subways are plastered with images of sad, drooping cactuses — an image meant to suggest erectile dysfunction in ads for the men's wellness company him.
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America's "illegal galleries," which he has held in New York subways and along the US-Mexico border, amongst other places, were a natural inspiration for Legal Goods.
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That price tag would be significantly lower than recent subways built in the United States, which have cost from $600 million to over $2 billion per mile.
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While they may not move quite as quickly as subways, they function essentially in the same way, not having to contend with cars and getting priority signalling.
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Lin told DNAinfo that she hopes her social experiment shows New Yorkers (and people everywhere, really) how much we need to support pregnant women on the subways.
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All three cities, home to most of the nation's busiest subways, are growing and attracting young people, who prefer mass transit but have become frustrated by delays.
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Thus, speech on buses and subways, or in public schools, libraries, post offices, courthouses, transportation facilities, military bases, and prisons can be significantly curtailed, and even banned.
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New York City officials say about 248,215 people are living in shelters, and that an estimated 222,000 sleep on the streets or in the subways every night.
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At one moment, we appear to be looking downward at the legs of travelers seated on subways, when those anatomical parts are transformed into entire miniature people.
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The two of them will fight over anything—snowstorms, schools, pizza, naps, a deer in Harlem—but their most ferocious differences seem to be over the subways.
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In 2019, about more than 60,000 people slept in the city&aposs shelter system, while an estimated 4,000 slept on the streets, subways, or other public areas.
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She noted that with commercial activity no longer concentrated on the waterfront and most people living elsewhere, ferries handle only a fraction of the ridership of subways.
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But transit experts warn that when riders shift from buses and subways to ridesharing sedans and SUVs, they're taking up much more space, leading to congested roads.
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Cuomo responded immediately, saying that while the plan could be considered when Albany returns from recess next year, it wasn't the immediate fix that the subways needed.
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Strikingly, only 24 percent of the system's 472 stations are ADA-accessible, which makes New York subways the least accessible major mass transit system in the country.
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When she comes into focus again, in her 261s, she is shuttling between subways, shelters and people who kicked her out when her disability check was spent.
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Part of a blueprint for better subways and buses is finding out why the stewards of the system did not say that things were going badly wrong.
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The city's buses have been plagued by sluggish service and declining ridership, even though the persistent problems have received less attention than the crisis facing the subways.
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And the city's comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, testifying immediately after Mr. de Blasio, told the state legislators that he, too, favored more city contributions to the subways.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways and buses, scrambled to fill the gaps left by the service suspensions at some of the city's busiest stations.
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It is meant as a humorous reaction to how dirty the NYC subways can be, and to challenge the audience absurdity of certain actions and preconceived thoughts.
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In 2015, the board voted to ban political advertising on subways and buses to avoid legal challenges it had faced in rejecting some ads with political messages.
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The authority's passenger revenue projections for the entire system, which includes subways, buses and commuter railroads, were $376 million lower than expected over the next four years.
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"I wouldn't have missed this day for the world," said Andy Byford, the leader of the M.T.A. agency that runs the subways, who toured the new station.
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Not to mention the fact that subways are very costly public goods, and, at that time, people were leaving the city en masse for a burgeoning suburbia.
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As for his conspicuous absence from the subways, Ms. Lever said Mr. Cuomo "cannot take the subway from his home to either office" in Manhattan or Albany.
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It's the latest example of Uber trying to play nice with public transportation after years of directly competing with and poaching riders from subways, trains, and buses.
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Why it matters: Contactless payment technology can bring down operating costs and act as a test case for subsequent attempts to make subways more accessible and modern.
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In addition to paying for physical improvements to the subways, it would address a growing problem by making mass transit more affordable for the city's poorest residents.
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The problem of overcrowding on subways is a circular one: More passengers means more delays, leading to more canceled trains, resulting in — wait for it — more overcrowding.
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The panel wants drivers who take the B.Q.E. to use less congested routes, or to get off the road completely by switching to subways, buses and ferries.
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While Mr. Moss said the city should have more influence over the transportation authority, he scoffed at the idea of giving it back control over the subways.
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Although many New Yorkers believe the city runs the subways, it is actually the governor who appoints the authority's chairman and holds considerable sway over the agency.
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The mayor said the current effort, which he has called a "millionaire's tax," was different because it would directly address a pressing need to fund the subways.
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The controversy culminated on Wednesday when the board of the M.T.A., which oversees the subways, approved Mr. Cuomo's proposal as a part of the agency's new budget.
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Now, rather than spending two and a half hours a day on subways and PATH trains, she spends about 20 minutes walking to and from the office.
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Running ads on subways, or trying to build a social media following, or landing a spot on the Forbes "30 Under 30" list isn't who they are.
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Transit advocates have long called for the state to find new revenue sources to help pay for the authority's sprawling network of subways, buses and commuter railroads.
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Major transportation hubs that support air travel, tubular travel (trains and subways), and ports have hardened their defenses post-9/11 -- via oversight, regulation and mandated precautions.
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Musicians will perform at stations and other venues across the boroughs for "Bach in the Subways," a celebration of the composer born 332 years ago this month.
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A few subways riders in New York City were treated to an unexpected Thanksgiving treat when fellow straphangers busted out a full-course meal on Sunday night.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's subways, made the decision to close aboveground service in the hopes of keeping the majority of the system running.
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On March 227.25, the base fare on subways and buses will remain $211, but riders will receive a lower bonus when buying a pay-per-ride MetroCard.
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In cities such as Beijing, the capital, and the business hub of Shanghai, streets and subways remain largely deserted with many shops and restaurants empty or shut.
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The technology also helped usher in the "see something, say something" public awareness campaign that started in subways and spread to nearly every other corner of life.
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A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency that runs the city's subways and buses, said it was working to modernize the system and improve service.
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But that's because the subways don't work, the streets are gridlocked, the housing is unaffordable, the shelters are overcrowded, and the schools are segregated and often inadequate.
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Andrew Salzberg, the head of transportation policy for Uber, said one of the priorities for the company is to fix existing infrastructure, be it potholes or subways.
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He initially opposed paying $418 million for the short-term plan to fix the subways (he eventually gave in), and was cold over Albany's congestion pricing plan.
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It made more than a hundred Bumble users in New York into models for ads that were plastered on billboards, phone booths and the subways across the city.
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New York City said the number of unsheltered people -- those sleeping on the street, and in parks, subways and other public places -- declined by 2% from last year.
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Today the subways are cleaner and the city is more orderly; romanticized though it is, no one wants to return to the grimy, gritty days of the 15s.
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In my own experience, I've gone out with guys I've met in the supermarket, on subways, in parks, on ferry boats, in bars, and men I've met online.
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Yesterday, while the city's subways flooded for the umpteenth time — there was rain on the platform — people looked for a hero who was handling the floodwaters with grace.
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Apple released its courageous new wireless AirPods in December, and in that time, we've spotted lots of people wearing the earbuds on the streets and subways of NYC.
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Terrorists have made a habit of targeting airports, subways and other transit hubs, as they did in Belgium, because of the opportunity these locations offer for mass casualties.
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Andrew M. Cuomo said on Saturday that service to aboveground subways and to Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Railroad could be restored on Sunday, weather permitting.
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Saturday had begun with subways and buses running in New York, but Mr. Cuomo said buses were "having significant issues" and that some commuter trains faced equipment problems.
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Some experts worry that paying for AVs will cannibalize funding for public transportation at the expense of low-income residents who depend on transit like subways and buses.
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Now, to be clear, I am not a scorned ex-lover of the city, fed up with the noise, the stalled subways, or the stench of baking trash.
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Growing our economy is a necessary part of fixing our city — our aging infrastructure, creaking subways, and scandalous public housing situation are all profound challenges for New Yorkers.
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The budget, which is the second largest in the country behind California's, also includes: An overhaul of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the city's subways and buses.
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Between this, your promise to actually fix the subways, and that apparent friendship with Eric B. and Rakim, you're well on your way to earning that gubernatorial crown.
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Related: Hackers Built an Ad-Blocking AR Headset Augmented Reality Brings GIF Art to a Subway Platform Near You Jilly Ballistic Hits New York Subways With Computer Warnings
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The woman's detention was also part of a string of recent incidents posted to social media that some say highlight aggressive policing in the subways, even as Gov.
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The city ultimately increased its contribution to the $29 billion capital plan for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state-run agency that operates subways, buses and commuter railroads.
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I then asked him what is one thing riders should know about the subways, that they—the quite literal eyes and ears of the MTA—could tell them.
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Because of the frequent meetings, he could see that they really felt part of the project, especially when they saw their words projected on buildings and in subways.
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Not that the change was immediately apparent: When I left Nixon's party on Thursday night, the subways were shut down, and I had no way to get home.
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He does not seem to fear people, going by his respectful recollections of those he saw as a young transit officer in the unruly subways of the 1980s.
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For them, livability included natural light, easy access to parks, sufficient closet space and proximity to grocery stores, doctors and subways — without being in the thick of tourists.
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Dining includes things like restaurants, bars, pubs, coffee shops, and more, while travel includes airfare, hotels, Airbnb, taxis, ride-share services like Uber and Lyft, subways, and more.
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Mr. Johnson has banned drinking on the subways and is finally about to succeed in having 24-hour service on parts of the system despite fierce union opposition.
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A "what if" feature lets museumgoers respond to provocative speculation, like the prospect that the city's population might begin shrinking or the subways might stop running after midnight.
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New Yorkers who depend on the subways are missing court hearings, arriving late for medical appointments, losing out on jobs or being robbed of time with their children.
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"It's heartbreaking," said David L. Gunn, a former transit system president who helped drag the subways out of the 1533s crisis only to see the system deteriorate again.
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In his first major initiative, Andy Byford, the new leader of the transit agency that operates the city's subways and buses, released a plan to speed up buses.
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In Buenos Aires, a city of almost 20093 million people, cars slowed to a crawl as traffic lights went dark, and trains and subways stopped on their tracks.
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Based on data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the subways have made gains from their nadir a few years ago, but the system is hardly adequate, she writes.
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Candidates are already focusing on everything from buses and subways to public housing, privacy rights, increasing the minimum wage and improving the quality of life in the city.
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But the transit agency's financial plan relies on modest fare and toll increases, every two years, across its sprawling system of subways, buses, commuter railroads and paratransit service.
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Local proponents of congestion pricing say its goals are to discourage vehicles from driving below 60th Street in Manhattan and to raise funds for the city's beleaguered subways.
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When it comes to talented street musicians, New York City has such an abundance of riches that its subways, streets and parks could serve as a recruiting ground.
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For years, any attempt by Mr. Cuomo to dip his toe into social media has been met with mockery, most of it suggesting that he FIX THE SUBWAYS.
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Across the state, the needs of New Yorkers, from subways to affordable housing, are subverted by powerful interests in a culture rife with ethical rot and outright corruption.
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" Eric Phillips, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio, then responded with a searing statement: "New York City contributes billions of dollars to subways the governor and M.T.A. mismanage.
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We may not sit around the campfire and sing "Kumbaya," but we know how to get along, as we have to share the same sidewalks, subways and parks.
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As one of the creators of that program on New York City's subways and buses, I send my thanks for the amusing titular twist on Poetry in Motion.
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He controls the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency that runs the subways and the Long Island Rail Road, which will also suffer delays at Penn Station this summer.
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Police officials have long denied that racial factors play a driving role in how officers decide whom to ticket or charge with fare evasion on subways and buses.
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Cycling has increasingly emerged as an alternative to the troubled subways and buses, especially in the boroughs outside of Manhattan where access to public transit can be limited.
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As president of New York City Transit, leading the city's subways and buses, Mr. Prendergast was praised for overseeing the system's swift recovery after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Facial recognition, in particular, has become a normal part of many people's lives, used in subways, office buildings, schools and even safari parks to check season-ticket holders.
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We may also have to think about reducing occasions when people are crowded together; that may mean more people working from home to avoid offices, buses and subways.
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In a broadside against the mayor at the time, Ed Koch, he called not only the subways and schools in New York a "disgrace," but also the zoos.
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New York City's subway system, overcrowded and prone to meltdowns as it may be, is the workhorse of American subways, carrying more than 5.6 million riders a day.
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Subways were largely shut, children left for school early and only about one in eight suburban trains were running in many areas, if they were running at all.
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PHILADELPHIA — Transit workers in this city ended their crippling weeklong strike on Monday, ensuring that all buses, trolleys and subways will be up and running by Election Day.
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While the city's infrastructure improvements do not extend to public transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subways, is upgrading several nearby stations along the Grand Concourse.
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He left to work in the private sector and ran the transit system in Vancouver, British Columbia, before returning to New York in 2009 to oversee the subways.
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Even if congestion pricing is approved, it will not provide all the funding the authority says it needs to improve its network of subways, buses and commuter railroads.
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For example, could it have entered into a cool public-private partnership to fix the junky subways its employees would have ridden, perhaps in new and innovative ways?
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Subways and buses have absorbed much of the city's growth in recent decades as subway ridership has hit levels not seen since the middle of the last century.
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By 1 pm, people were urinating in public, passing out in the street, keeling over on the sidewalk, screaming profanities, and throwing up on subways and in parks.
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If you visited the subways [in Japan], you would be quite shocked, because they're cleaned mostly by very active elderly people who are on their hands and knees.
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It's something Harvard University researcher Melissa Sands often wondered when she lived in New York City and rode subways filled with people from varying ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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But Cuomo is also taking a ton of shit right now over the state of New York's subways, which are run by the MTA, a state-controlled agency.
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A bit detached from the nitty-gritty of the subways, Mr. Moynihan wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to study magnetic levitation.
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The company's net closures include new Subway stores that it opened last year, which means the number of closed Subways is even larger than the company is letting on.
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"We need to figure out, with the substantial resources the MTA has right now, how to focus on New York City subways," de Blasio told WCBS Radio on Wednesday.
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Officials have faced tough criticism for the present state of transportation in the city, as well as proposed plans for future improvements as delays on crowded subways have increased.
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It's a look Le Caire faces often as a self-identified transsexual woman — one that keeps her from riding subways at night or straying from places she knows well.
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But visible homelessness has been the most politically damaging issue to Mr. de Blasio as a mix of homeless people and sheltered panhandlers have filled the sidewalks and subways.
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"There weren't signs on the billboards and the subways that said save people at all costs," Heather McGhee, president of the left-leaning public policy group Demos, told me.
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I mean, generally, everyone feels a little upset about the subways, the way they've been maintained over the years, and the conditions and difficulties they have to deal with.
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Last year, the ACLU agreed to represent Milo Yiannopoulos when the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority tried to ban advertisements for his new book from city subways and buses.
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Muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) are actually more closely related to voles and lemmings than to either beavers or the Norway rats that haunt the alleys and subways of New York.
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