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Express trains began running on April 24, 1939, to serve the 1939 New York World's Fair. [26] The first train left Main Street at 6:30 a.m. local time.IRT expresses ran every nine minutes between Main Street and Times Square, with BMT expresses having a similar frequency, running just between Main Street and Queensboro Plaza.
As planned, the AirTrain LaGuardia would have run from LaGuardia Airport with two stops within the airport, before running over the Grand Central Parkway for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) before terminating in Willets Point near Citi Field and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, and would have connected there with the New York City Subway's 7 and <7> trains at the Mets–Willets Point station and with the ...
A free passageway from the shuttle platform to the 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station, served by the 7, <7> , B, D, F, <F>, and M trains, is open during the day from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. [5] The present shuttle platforms were built for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as a local station on the city's first subway line ...
The ExpressTram is an automated people mover system operating at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, in Romulus, Michigan, USA. The driverless system transports passengers along Concourse A of the airport's Edward H. McNamara Terminal, which is the world's second-longest airport concourse. Detroit Metro Airport serves as the second ...
Select Bus Service ( SBS; stylized as +selectbus service) is a brand used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in New York City. The first SBS route was implemented in 2008 to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors.
The line would have been extended 8.1 miles at a cost of $17.7 million. In 1998, an extension of the BMT Astoria Line to LaGuardia Airport was planned as part of a $1.2 billion package to provide access to the New York City airports with funding from the MTA, the Port Authority and the city. The preferred route would have extended the Astoria ...
LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) / l ə ˈ ɡ w ɑːr d i ə / is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. Covering 680 acres (280 ha ) as of July 1, 2024 [update] , [ 3 ] the facility was established in 1929 and began operating as a public airport in 1939.
The LaGuardia Airport subway extension is a proposed extension of the New York City Subway 's BMT Astoria Line (currently served by the N and W trains) to connect to LaGuardia Airport, which has never had an airport rail link. Such a connection was first proposed in 1943, when LaGuardia was already surrounded by development.