Metropolitan Transportation Authority
| Metropolitan Transportation Authority | |
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| Basic information | |
| Reference year | 2014 |
| Board | Thomas F. Prendergast |
| Employee | 67.445 |
| Lines | |
| Subway | 23 |
| Light rail | 16 |
| bus | 386 |
| number of vehicles | |
| Locomotives | 82 |
| Subway car | 6,388 (2007) |
| Light rail car | 2,290 (2007) |
| Omnibuses | 6,263 (2007) |
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA ) is a state-owned transportation company in the US state of New York .
The public transport network covers a supply area of 13,000 square kilometers with a population of 14.6 million people. The coverage area includes the city of New York , Long Island and twelve other counties in the state of New York and two counties in Connecticut . The New York City subway , buses and trains operated by the MTA transport an average of 7.8 million people every weekday. This corresponds to an annual passenger volume of around 2.4 billion people.
Departments of the MTA
The main division of the MTA is the New York City Transit Authority . It is divided into the following business areas:
- the New York City Subway (New York Subway)
- the Staten Island Railway (SIR)
- the system of the New York City Transit Buses (New York City bus service)
besides it contains further
- MTA Long Island Rail Road
- MTA Long Island bus
- MTA Metro-North Railroad
- MTA Bridges and Tunnels
- MTA Capital Construction
- MTA Police
facts and figures
The MTA maintains one of the largest metro networks in the world. Most metro lines and many MTA bus lines run daily and all year round without a nightly break, a total of 341 rail, underground and bus lines have been set up. The MTA owns around 8,590 railway and metro cars to operate these lines and has the world's largest fleet of metro cars.
Web links
- Official site of the MTA (English)