New York City Subway

New York City Subway - the largest underground world of the length of lines. In 1868 in New York was opened by elevated (on metal rack) f the city. e. line with the cable traction, replaced in 1871 at the steam, and in 1890 - to electric power. The total length of operating lines of 1355 km (one for passenger traffic uses 1056 km). The official number of stations - 468 (Different methods of calculation give values from 416 to 468), comprising 26 routes. Daily passenger traffic - 3 906 849 people (data 2004).

Despite the traditional title of subway, about 40% of paths are ground or aboveground. All of them are completely separated from traffic and other modes of transport, the majority of intersections between the paths made by multi.

Companies BMT and IND using the same rolling stock configurations, so their lines have been easily combined into a single branched system.

IRT using smaller cars, and their standard platform, respectively, differed from the company BMT and IND. For this reason, the former routes of IRT (now marked with numbers 1 to 9) did not share the paths with routes BMT and IND (marked).

One site operated jointly IRT and BMT. This so-called station Flashingskoy line (now the route number 7) Queensboro Plaza.

To date, the names of IRT, BMT and IND yet sometimes you can hear, even from the conductor declaring stop. But the real significance of these names do not have, except for the nostalgic feeling of old New York, and history - for the visitors.