As previously reported, the $15 billion in bonds contingent on congestion pricing are earmarked for a variety of big-ticket MTA upgrades and repairs, including hundreds of new R211 subway cars for ...

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.

MTA Chairperson Janno Lieber took to the airwaves to defend congestion pricing from what he called "grievance politics" Tuesday, ahead of the second rush hour under the controversial tolling plan.

Though initial reports said MTA would get rid of the cars entirely in 2025, an MTA spokesperson told Hyperallergic that the most recent order of 435 R211 trains won’t arrive until 2027.

At least two five-car open gangway trains will be transferred from the C to the G line in the first quarter of 2025 – and riders will have about a 1 in 5 chance of riding an open gangway car ...

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 closed-end) cars and ...

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 ...

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.

Yesterday, the MTA tested out a new version of its R211 subway cars that features “open gangways,” or accordion-like walkways that connect its train cars.