New York City Subway: map, photos, description

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trains operating on several lines, the New York metro does not close on a technical break and is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For the same reasons, the same route can go regular trains that stop at every station, and express trains. For the convenience of passengers, they have different platforms and color of the sign indicating the route (express trains have red marks).
Lines and a subway station in New York
The total number of stations in the New York subway (with stations transplants) - 468, the number of lines - 24, length of track - 1355 miles (1056 km of which is used for the carriage of passengers).

The first subway line in New York was opened in 1904. However, its forerunner - the elevated city rail cable steering appeared in 1868. Three years later, there were steam engines, and by 1890 the world's first electric. October 27, 1904 was inaugurated by City Hall station, the first station of the modern New York subway, is now closed, but available for inspection passengers route 6, which trains make a U-turn at the end station Brooklyn Bridge.

Most of the stations of the New York subway do not have common inputs and common platform for trains going in opposite directions. Therefore, passengers are forced to pay tolls twice if inadvertently pass on the idea, to his station, but on the platform with the wrong direction, or when passed my stop and try to go back to the previous station.

Names of stations to help navigate the city, because they all have names corresponding to the objects, which are located near. However, due to the fact that different districts (boroughs) of New York have the same street names, and the names of the stations are repeated. For this reason, in order to avoid error indications for varying stations typically use its name along with the number of the route.
Tickets for the New York City subway
Buy tickets for travel in the New York metro area, you can either have the assistant station or in circuit terminals MetroCard. Ticket terminals have menus in several languages​​, accept cash and credit cards, checks issued and surrender. You can buy a card from Pay-Per-Ride on one trip with transfers bus-subway within 2 hours after the first drive, card SingleRide to travel for 2 hours direct or card for multiple trips Unlimited-Ride, which can be used once a 18 minutes to pay for travel on the subway or the bus.

The main problems of the New York subway - litter, graffiti and rats. Authorities are trying to deal with them - but because of poor financing the fight is still not successful.