October 12, 2008
NYC transit by the numbers
A look at some numbers behind the New York transit system:
34,000: Number of bus and subway workers who walked off the job today
$400 million: Amount the strike could cost the city
45: Number of carpool staging centers set up around the city
34: Number of locations where workers are picketing
4: Minimum number of riders required per car to enter Manhattan under contingency plans
$1 billion: MTA's surplus for this year
352 million: The number of miles traveled by the subway fleet in 2004.
7 million: Daily subway and bus ridership
1.4 billion: Annual subway ridership.
7 million: Number of riders each day on average.
25: Number of years since the last city transit strike
31: The number of miles from one end of the A train to the other.
468: The number of subway stations.
660: The miles of track in passenger service.
$2: The amount for a one-way fare on a city bus or subway
Five cents: The amount for a single subway fare in 1904 when the subway went into service.
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