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Symbolic New York subwayone of the most cinematic in the world, just turn 120 years old valuable stories of all kinds along with chronic problems with financing And the almost obligatory presence of the most common rodent in the city – rats.

Almost 500 stations and almost 1000 kilometers of roads, carries 3.6 million passengers per day, what does this do one of the largest in the world.

USA 🇺🇸 : Real rats are flying around New York with this video, or are they disturbing subway passengers pic.twitter.com/avj3gn46tg

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It was opened in 1904. and in subsequent years he had up to three different companies, two private and one municipal, it’s finally They were merged in 1940. as they separately faced financial problems.

According to New York Transit Museumits construction was the work of Irish and Italian immigrantswho implemented a hybrid system that was to “cut and cover, and explode only when necessary” because Features of Manhattan like an island they made it difficult to dig deep.

His price was five cents for 44 years until it wasn’t ten cents in 1948 due to its economic impracticality, which caused complaints from users when they saw that Transportation cost increased by 100%.

“New Yorkers thought it was theirs birthright to pay five cents, says the director of the New York Transit Museum, Concetta Bencivenga.

As a ticket “tokens” nails metal coins that allow you to get into the subway, but what They were replaced by Metrocards in the early 2000s. and now they have given way contactless cards or payment using a mobile phone.

$2.90 one way is standard. no matter how far a person travels and how long he is in the carriages, unlike other transport systems in other cities, because otherwise it would be punish areas with fewer resources doubly which are located on the outskirts of the city.

“Metro” – a way of life

Bencivenga believes that the “metro” is more than just transport, It’s almost a way of life.

You live in New York the way you live thanks to public transportation, you just don’t know it.

The metro not only connects key places, but also influences the urban planning and development of this great city, as, for example, in the case queens, who is standing around line seven.

Bencivenga, who considers this vehicle “magical” because it can connect different culturesadded:

Public transportation acts as a magnet that pulls the city upward, outward, and outward in places like Queens and the Bronx. These places exist the way they do because of the metro.

Everything that’s glamorous about the New York subway thanks to films like “Saturday Night Fever” (1977), “The Warriors” (1979) or “Ghostbusters 2” (1989), among the hundreds who showed it in their scenes, This is a decline with the constant presence of the “homeless” and the unstable, both in the carriages and at the stations themselves, departing lasting memories for train users.

#OTD In 1953, New York began using subway tokens. The best scenes of the film in the subway:

Wizard (metro station)
Death wish
Saturday Night Fever
king of new york

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Much safer than other places in the country.

Though times have changed, the same the same debate about the New York subway, usually focuses on two topics: congestion and energy efficiency.

Lack of funding is one of the big problems faces the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which hopes to obtain 16.5 billion new toll roads taxes on Entry into Manhattan by car starting in January. a measure that was very unpopular among the powerful automobile lobby.

Improvements aimed at metro expansion, sustainability and accessibilitythanks to the installation of elevators repeatedly requested by associations disabled people at meetings of the board of directors.

For the first time in 115 years, the night subway in New York City was stopped to clean trains during the pandemic https://t.co/OWHu7mhlJA pic.twitter.com/WV2aAPYJKk

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Regarding safety, MTA CEO, Janno Liber, At the last board meeting, he asked to listen to those who describe the New York subway as “dystopian hellscape”ensuring that this “Much safer than other places in the United States.”

The future of the MTA and its funding will determine changes to this centuries-old transport system what allows millions of people to move every day and what The frantic pace of the city remains unchanged.

(EFE)