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It closed many elevated subway lines that became too expensive to maintain. Graffiti, crime, and decrepitude became common. To stay solvent, the New York City Subway had to make many service cutbacks and defer necessary maintenance projects. In the 1980s an $18 billion financing program for the rehabilitation of the subway began.
Eventually, multiple states received retired subway cars for reefs. [7] The program was discontinued in 2010, after more than 2,500 cars were reefed, because newer cars contained more plastic, which was too expensive to economically remove before reefing. [8] [9]
4. Subway. Five dollar footlongs are long dead, even if that annoying jingle still lives on in all our heads. "I have no idea how things got so expensive there," writes u/RomeoPanelli888.
One facet of the Subway Action Plan, a $9.5 million contract for an extensive cleaning of 3,000 subway cars and 100 stations, almost resulted in a strike among unionized subway cleaners. The strike was averted when the MTA ensured that the contract would be for a one-time cleaning and agreed to have two unionized workers at each cleaning site.
Photo: Prachana Thong-on/ShutterstockRemember the $5 footlong? In 2008, Subway introduced a deal that seemed almost too good to be true: pick any 12-inch sub and add all your favorite toppings for ...
After New York City subway ridership dropped 90% in the spring of 2020, it is still at less than 60% of pre-pandemic levels, or 3.1 million riders a day, ...
At $2.50, a ride on Chinatown dollar vans is usually cheaper than on the subway and bus systems. The vans, which are mostly in the Chinese language, are used mainly by non-English-speaking Chinese immigrants in Queens and Brooklyn, who have moved to the outer boroughs because living in Manhattan is too expensive.
The soda wars continue between two bubbly juggernauts. On March 19, Subway announced a new, 10-year agreement with PepsiCo to supply beverages in U.S. restaurants starting Jan. 1, 2025. That means ...