The MTA is taking a step toward expanding its fleet of open gangway subway cars — and potentially bringing the new-look rides to the numbered lines. With funding for the 2025-2029 $68.4 billion ...

THE MTA Tuesday debuted two open-gangway trains on the G, making it the second line after the C to get open R211s, with no doors between cars.

A $10.9 billion plan to phase out R46 subway trains from the 1970s and R86 cars from the 1980s, known for their warm-colored seating, is tucked in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s ...

MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber said: “This latest purchase will help us get the next generation of rolling stock on the rails sooner so we can keep making the system more reliable and dramatically ...

Marc A. Hermann/MTA The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is exercising Option 2 with Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. for 435 additional R211 rapid transit railcars—355 R211A/S (traditional ...

To date, 345 R211 train cars are in operation, mostly on the A and C line. As of early next year the MTA intends to roll out two new open-gangway trains on the G line — open-gangway cars have so ...

In the new year, the MTA plans to slowly retire the R46, R62/62A, and R68/R68A subway trains across the system. Commuters can expect to see them replaced with the new R211/R211S cars, according to ...

New R211T interior. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA In addition to the R46 cars, orange seats can also be found inside R62, R62A, R68, and R68A cars.

MTA’s new high-tech train Inside, the R211 looks a lot like the last iteration of the “New Technology Trains”—models that the MTA has introduced since 2000—but more intensified.