New York City’s subway system is officially entering a “Golden Age” of investment.
Governor Kathy Hochul and the MTA have just pulled the trigger on a record-breaking plan to build up to 2,390 new subway cars, marking the largest single rail car contract in the agency’s history.
To put the sheer scale of this move into perspective: this one order contains more cars than the entire subway fleets of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) combined.
A “public transit renaissance”
The new fleet, known as the R262, is designed to replace aging cars on the A-Division (the numbered lines) that have been in service since the Reagan era…