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The 7 is unofficially nicknamed the "International Express" [85] and the "Orient Express", [86] in part because it travels through several different ethnic neighborhoods populated by immigrants, especially along Roosevelt Avenue, and also because it was the principal subway route to the 1964–65 New York World's Fair.
[5] [6] After this, the route, still called the Orient Express, was shortened to start from Strasbourg, [7] leaving daily after the arrival of a TGV from Paris. On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate entirely and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, a "victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines". [8]
It additionally operated four special routes to racetracks in the New York City metropolitan area. Service was discontinued on April 1, 1980. The M7 express route became a part of the X23 route upon being taken over by the New York City Transit Authority, then became the original X90. X90 service to 5th Avenue & 110th Street was discontinued in ...
The Orient Express is preparing for its first launch in decades — a luxury sleeper train in Italy. Dubbed La Dolce Vita, the new Orient Express trains will start operating in Spring 2025.
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) is a private luxury train service from London to Venice and other European cities. It is currently owned by Belmond . These VSOE services are not to be confused with a regularly scheduled train called the Orient Express , which ran nightly between Paris and Bucharest – in the last years of operation ...
New York City plans to intensify a crackdown on subway fare-beating by sending at least 800 police officers specifically to keep watch on turnstiles, officials announced Monday. It's the latest in ...
Orient Express La Minerva, set to open in central Rome in spring 2025, is the first hotel to be opened under the latest incarnation of the legendary brand. Another hotel and a pair of branded ...
Starting on May 1, 2022, the fare for the Q70 bus was waived while the New York state government studied alternatives to the planned AirTrain LaGuardia people-mover system. [83] [84] As part of a pilot program by the MTA to make five bus routes free (one in each borough), the B60, Bx18, M116, Q4, and S46/96 were selected as fare-free routes in ...