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Station complex Individual stations Lines Services Notes 14th Street/Sixth Avenue: 14th Street: IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line 1 2 3 The IND Sixth Avenue Line and BMT Canarsie Line were connected inside fare control in the late 1960s, [citation needed] and a passageway west to the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line opened on January 16, 1978.
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [78] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.
The New York City Subway primarily employs two types of turnstiles: a waist-high turnstile, and a full-height turnstile known as a High Entry-Exit Turnstile (HEET). The waist-high turnstiles, the most prominent in the system, were installed beginning in 1993 along with the implementation of MetroCard, though they originally accepted tokens. [ 8 ]
To address overcrowding, in 1909, the New York Public Service Commission proposed lengthening the platforms at stations along the original IRT subway. [ 13 ] : 168 As part of a modification to the IRT's construction contracts made on January 18, 1910, the company was to lengthen station platforms to accommodate ten-car express and six-car local ...
The New York City Subway uses a system known as Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) for dispatching and train routing on the A Division [237] (the Flushing line and the trains used on the 7 and <7> services do not have ATS.) [237] ATS allows dispatchers in the Operations Control Center (OCC) to see where trains are in real time, and whether each ...
The station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway. After the city's first subway line was split into multiple lines in 1918, there was a failed proposal in the 1920s to convert 33rd Street into an express station. The station's platforms were lengthened in the late 1940s.
The 175th Street station (also known as 175th Street–George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal) is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, at the intersection of 175th Street and Fort Washington Avenue, it is served by the A train at all times.
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