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Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Locale
| New York City
Long Island
Lower
Hudson Valley
Coastal Connecticut
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Transit type
| Commuter rail, local and express bus, subway, bus rapid transit
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Number of lines
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- 17 commuter rail lines
- Staten Island Railway
- 5 Metro-North lines
- 11 LIRR lines
- 24 subway lines
- 320 bus routes
- 237 local routes
- 65 express routes
- 8
BRT
routes
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Daily ridership
| 8,658,764 (weekday; all modes)
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Chief executive
| Janno Lieber (CEO)
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Headquarters
| 2 Broadway, New Work, NY 10004
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Website
| new
.mta
.info
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Began operation
| 1965
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Number of vehicles
| 2,352 commuter rail cars
6,344 subway
63 SIR cars
5,777 buses
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The
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
(
MTA
) is a
government
-chartered
corporation
that operates
public transportation
in the
U.S. state
of
New York
.
[1]
The MTA runs
buses
and
trains
in 12
counties
in southeastern New York. It also runs in two counties in southwestern
Connecticut
. On weekdays, about 11
million
passengers use MTA buses and trains. Over 800,000
vehicles
use its seven
tolled bridges
and
two tunnels
daily.
[2]
The MTA was
chartered
by the New York state government in 1965. In 1965, it was called the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority (MCTA). The MTCA was made by
Governor
Nelson Rockefeller
to buy and run the
Long Island Rail Road
, which run out of money. The MCTA became the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in 1968. In 1968, it combined the operations of the
New York City Transit Authority
(NYCTA) and
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority
(TBTA), which are now
MTA New York City Transit
(NYCT) and
MTA Bridges and Tunnels
(B&T).
The MTA also took the
lease
of the
Penn Central Transportation
's Hudson, Harlem and New Haven
commuter rail
lines until 1976. In 1976,
Conrail
took over Penn Central. The MTA did not run these
commuter
rail lines by itself until 1983. In 1983, it formed the
Metro-North Commuter Railroad
from the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines.
MTA Bridges and Tunnels
is the largest bridge and tunnel toll agency in the
United States
. More than a million people use its bridges and tunnels each day. MTA Bridges and Tunnels collect $900 million from tolls each year.
The seven bridges are:
- Triborough Bridge
, connecting
Manhattan
,
the Bronx
,
Queens
, and
Randalls and Wards Islands
(Manhattan)
- Bronx-Whitestone Bridge
, connecting the Bronx and Queens
- Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
, connecting
Brooklyn
and
Staten Island
- Throgs Neck Bridge
, connecting the Bronx and Queens
- Henry Hudson Bridge
, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx
- Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
, connecting Brooklyn and
the Rockaways
(Queens)
- Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge
, connecting
Broad Channel
to the Rockaways (Queens)
The two tunnels are:
New York City Transit Authority
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change
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The
New York City Transit Authority
[3]
has 5.5 million riders per day, or over 1.698 billion a year as of 2019.
[4]
The NYCTA runs:
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International
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National
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Artists
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Other
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