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New NYC Subway Car Design Unveiled

New subway cars with wider doors, Wi-Fi and phone charging stations are coming to New York City, though questions remain about how the state plans to help pay for them.

Governor Andrew Cuomo today unveiled the design features of 1,025 new and reimagined subway cars – including vital enhancements to the exteriors and interiors of regular cars, wider doors, as well as the addition of up to 750 “Open Car End” designed-cars, which will reduce wait times and increase capacity.

The Governor also previewed key elements that will be featured in the renovation of 31 subway stations throughout the New York Metropolitan Area, and announced that the first of several Requests for Proposals will be issued this week.

The MTA is using design-build contracts to expedite the process and ensure the shortest timeframe for project completion. These vital investments are part of the $27 billion, five-year MTA Capital Program to renew and expand the MTA network.

But while officials have highlighted renderings of the new subway cars, the money behind the upgrades is still unclear. Cuomo has committed to spending $8.3 billion in state money on the plan, but only $1 billion has been allocated, so far.

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18 Comments

  • Anonymous

    They should spend more money on fixing the schedules and staff. Old trains are just fine.

  • stick to basics

    instead of fancy led lighting workshops how about basic hearing protection

  • tzuras hapesach...

    wider doorway – hmmm how would that effect the eiruv

    maybe Andrea Coumo also gets to have a haklakic opinion

  • Tolerant Resident

    to the above comments
    what does the MTA have to do with the Eiruv?
    your quipering comments reek of anger
    you should be proud of our Government for all they do to make our neighborhood more progressive and so nice

    • Pedant

      You are right tolerant resident, we all need to stop quipering.

      Quipering is profoundly unhelpful

      Stop the quipering.

      I am proud of MY Government.

      My Government loves me and I love my Government.

      Government makes things so progressive and so nice.

  • Very sad.

    Waste of money.
    We need trains that move on schedule.
    Police on every platform.
    Clean and safe cars and stations.
    Elimination of rats and creepy loiterers.

    Charging stations? What? You can’t charge your phone at home and carry a spare battery?

  • 2 THINGS

    1) I WISH THAT THE TRAIN STATIONS AND THE TRAINS LOOK LIKE AT LEAST THAT NICE LIKE IT IS IN THE PICTURE.
    2) JUST WATCH, THEY WILL DO ANOTHER FARE HIKE IN ORDER TO HELP PAY FOR IT, I TELL THEM: TAKE A HIKE !!

  • העיקר חסר

    Changing the platform so that tracks are closed off while train is not at the station. This is done in stations all over the world (including in NY at the AirTrain). This is important for safety (no people pushed, fall or jump onto tracks) as well as cleanliness and comfort (possible to provide airconditioning at stations).

  • Just fine

    The modern train cars they use now are just fine. What they need is more TRACKS and more TUNNELS. Wifi can be easily installed into the current trains.

    It’s absolutely insane that many stations only have a single lane. If there is a train stuck at a station or in a tunnel, traffic gets backed up all the way to Manhattan!

    You can be standing at the Kingston Ave platform, and hear a message “Due to a technical problem at 148th st, 3,4 and 5 trains are running with delays”. Seriously?! A problem in the Bronx should cause traffic in Brooklyn???

  • Mlihouse

    And yet they still won’t bring back features that subway cars used to have, and that they foolishly got rid of years ago.

    Doors used to be staggered instead of facing each other, so that people who boarded the train from right-facing platforms and left-facing platforms would enter at different places, so you didn’t have crowds near the doors and empty spaces in the middle. There was no reason to get rid of the staggered doors, and no reason not to bring them back.

    The cars’ floors used to be deliberately patterned so that people would instinctively keep their feet to themselves and not spread them into the aisle. Again they got rid of this for no good reason.

  • Hearing Protection

    whata unstoppable fully loaded hulking reshus hayachid squealing down steel rails shaving along a metallic splatter of electrical-blue display of fireworks louder the the tzimtzum kipshutoy.

  • LGA

    Whatever happened to Coumo’s promise to extend the number 4 to LaGuardia??

    big talkers