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Find out the names, locations, services, and ridership of the 472 stations on the New York City Subway, the busiest rapid transit system in the U.S. and the seventh in the world. See the colorboxes for trunk line stations in Manhattan and the Crosstown Line.
Learn how the official map of the New York City Subway has evolved since 1904, from separate company maps to unified system maps. See examples of early maps, expansion maps, and current map by Hertz, Vignelli, and others.
[a] Its operator is the New York City Transit Authority, which is itself controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. In 2015, an average of 5.65 million passengers used the system daily, making it the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the 11th busiest in the world .
Learn about the 36 rail lines of the New York City Subway, their division, borough, service, opening date, and structure. See the color-coded map and the detailed table of the lines and services.
The MTA is a public transit authority in New York City and its suburbs, operating bus, subway, rail, and bridge services. It was created in 1965 to take over the Long Island Rail Road and later expanded to include other systems.
The mapping of transit systems was at first generally geographically accurate, but abstract route-maps of individual lines (usually displayed inside the carriages) can be traced back as early as 1908 (London's District line), and certainly there are examples from European and American railroad cartography as early as the 1890s where geographical features have been removed and the routes of ...
The NYCTA is a public-benefit corporation that operates public transportation in New York City, including subways, buses and paratransit. It is part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the largest transit system in North America, and has a daily ridership of 8 million trips.
Learn about the history, types, and impacts of New York City's transportation system, which is one of the most complex and efficient in the world. Find out how the city's high rate of public transit use affects its energy consumption, carbon footprint, and health outcomes.