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Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) - Statistics
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) - Statistics
Note: *Financial data estimated as of February 2018;
Statistical data projected for year ending December 31, 2017.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
- MTA subways, buses and railroads move 2.7 billion New Yorkers a year, about one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders
- MTA bridges and tunnels carry more than 310 million vehicles annually more than any bridge and tunnel authority in the nation.
- This vast transportation network, North America's largest, serves a population of 15.3 million people in the 5,000-square-mile area fanning out from NYC through Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut.
- Four of every five rush-hour commuters to NYC's central business district avoid traffic congestion by taking transit services, most of it operated by the MTA.
- MTA customers travel on America's largest bus fleet and on more trains than all the rest of the country's subways and commuter railroads combined.
- The greatest value of the MTA lies in its beneficial impact on the New York region's economy and quality of life.
- New York ranks near the top among the nation's best cities for business, says Fortune magazine, because it has what every city desires, a workable mass transit system.
- The MTA is continuing its rebuilding and improvement efforts through the 2015-2019 Capital Program and has committed significant resources to the first substantial expansion of the network in 60 years, including Long Island Rail Road access to Grand Central, the uptown segment of a full-length Second Avenue subway, and the extension of the number 7 line west from Times Square to the Javits Center.
- The MTA is a public-benefit corporation chartered by the New York State Legislature in 1968. It is governed by a 17-member Board. Members are nominated by the Governor, with four recommended by NYC's mayor and one each by the county executives of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, and Putnam counties. All Board members are confirmed by the New York State Senate.
Source:
MTA.info/mta/network.htm