Manhattan residents live at most five miles from a subway station, with the furthest being a $1.2 million penthouse on 20th Street. New York City has the largest subway system in the world, with 20 routes serving 27 stations. Beijing’s subway is the busiest, with 3.8 billion trips in 2018. Comedian Steven Wright said everything […]
Cincinnati’s abandoned subway system, consisting of two miles of tunnels, was almost completed in the 1920s before funding collapsed. It would cost $100.5 million to revive it for modern use, but it is currently being used to house a water main and fiber optic cables. The Ohio city of Cincinnati almost had a rapid transit […]
The Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York has created an online system where commuters can apply for late-to-work tickets to prove they were delayed on the subway. The number of late form downloads has increased by 97% since 2012, with a record 152,316 forms downloaded in 2017. The MTA has admitted that delays on the […]
The Second Avenue Subway Line in New York is the most expensive subway in the world, costing approximately $2 billion per mile. Factors affecting cost include location, property prices, labor costs, design and construction plans, and age of existing transit lines. A new subway line can cost anywhere from several million US dollars (USD) to […]
