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CBCNY report on maintaining useful life of subway cars

• 2008 budget cuts extended car rehab cycles from every 6 and 12 year periods to every 7 and 14 years
  • Resulted in 150 fewer cars rehabilitated annually
• Another 2008 cut resulted in inspection cycles for all but 2 oldest car models being increased from every 11k miles (~71 days) to 12k miles (~78 days)
• Delivery of R188s was delayed 6 months due to test track in Far Rockaway damaged during Sandy
• NYCT needs 125 new cars annually, only received 23 annually between 2011 and 2017
• Source: "Getting Back on Track: Replacing and Repairing Subway Cars Will Be Expensive and Take More Than a Decade," Citizens Budget Commission, July 2018. link
• Tags: cbcny dague reports

Worker Killed on Seventh Avenue Line

• Date: April 24, 2007
• Source: mta
• Tags: boggs-report mta reports

Fare increases from 5 cents to 10 cents

• Date: July 1, 1948
• $37.5mil increase in fare revenue during last 6 months of 1948 [2]
  • But 12% drop in ridership (25.5mil less)
• Average fare paid was 9.53 cents
  • Less than the actual fare of 10 cents because a combined subway and surface line fare was 12 cents
  • Rather than 10 cents plus 7 cents
• Other interesting items:
  • Board of Transportation added 1272 staff, 940 which "were permanent under civil service"
  • 14 deoderizing and germ-killing lamps were installed in IRT stations at Times Square and Grand Central
• Historically, transit was not required to be self-supporting because a fare increase would benefit private owners of "traction securities" [3]
  • No longer relevant since city now owned system
  • "Some of the cars in use are nearly forty years old"
  • City was providing $30mil annual subsidy to keep 5-cent fare using real estate taxes
  • Committee of Fifteen contained business, real estate, and industrial representatives
    • They proposed fare of 7.5 cents (2 for 15) to produce $45mil
      • Would cover $30mil current operational deficit
      • Allow $8mil for maintenance
      • And $7mil to replace old rolling stock
      • Allow for 6% cut in tax rate
      • And increase city's borrowing power, as the transit system would be operationally self-supporting ("making the transit debt self-liquidating"), which would allow for new subway construction
• In first 28 days of 10 cent fare (a 100% increase), rapid transit revenues only rose 69.77% [4]
  • Partly due to the 12 cent transit fares with transfer sold above
  • But also the institution of 16 free transfers between divisions
• Surface lines (bus and street car) fare increased from 5 to 7 cents, but only saw 18.96% rise in revenue [4]
  • All surface fare zones eliminated in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens
  • 2-cent transfer charge for Brooklyn surface lines eliminated
  • On 12 cent fare with transfer to rapid transit, surface lines only collecting share of 5 cents
    • seems like an internal NYCTA policy
• Source: Paul Crowell, "City Gains $37,520,822 in 6 Months Under New Fares, but Fewer Ride," The New York Times, February 17, 1949. link
• Source: "THE FIVE-CENT FARE," The New York Times, January 13, 1942. link
• Source: "TRANSIT REVENUES UP 56.77% IN JULY," The New York Times, August 14, 1948. link
• Source: "Report for the three and one-half years ending June 30, 1949.," The City of New York Board of Transportation, 82, 1949. link
• Tags: fare-increases mta reports

From Rescue to Renaissance: The Achievements of the MTA Capital Program 1982 - 2004

• Date: 2004
• Source: nyur
• Tags: capital-plan mta reports

The Road Back - History of MTA capital plan

• Date: 2012
• Source: pcac
• Tags: capital-plan mta reports

Regional Transportation Program

• Date: August 1969
• Highlights expansions and improvements as part of Mayor John Lindsay's "Program for Action"
• Source: "Regional Transportation Program," Metropolitan Transportation Authority, August 1969. link
• Tags: expansion mta program-for-action reports

Governance Assessment of MTA Capital Program Mega Projects

• Date: November 2010
• Capital Program Oversight Committee (CPOC) consists of MTA board members
• Independent Engineering Consultant (IEC) exists to help CPOC understand technical parts of capital projects
• MTAHQ Office of Construction Oversight (OCO) manages the IEC
• IEC is presently (2010) under a $7mil annual contract with MTAHQ
• MTA created MTA Capital Construction (MTACC) to oversee SAS, EAS, Fulton Center, 7 line extension
• Source: mtaoig
• Tags: mta reports