By Alexandra Leon – DNAInfo.com
Wider doors, accordion-style cars, countdown clocks and Wi-Fi access are some of the features included in a plan to build more than a 1,000 subway cars and redesign 31 stations across the city, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.
Cuomo and MTA officials presented new renderings and details of the proposed redesigns, which were announced earlier this year, at the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn Monday morning.
The project, included in the MTA’s $27 billion five-year capital plan, will modernize subway cars and stations by adding new technology, improved wayfinding and additional security, officials said.
The 1,025 new subway trains will include wider doors that will allow passengers to walk in and out of the train more quickly, digital route markers so passengers can easily make out which line a train belongs to, and LED headlights.
Inside, the trains will have an open-car design that will allow passengers to walk between cars. Instead of a door between cars, there will be an accordion-like connector that will increase car capacity, officials said.
The new trains will have flip seats to maximize space within the cars, new oval grab bars that will give straphangers more options for holding on, and illuminated door-opening alerts that will flash green to indicate on which side of the train the doors will be opening.
Each train will also have Wi-Fi access and USB charging ports, despite recent problems with charging stations on the State Island Ferry.
The new trains will also be equipped with security cameras for added safety, according to officials.
“It’s a different world every day,” Cuomo said. “The MTA needs to design that in their plan for the future.”
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Hope lines like 3,4 will be improved and Kingston with mega kids station will have elevator too … And Utica maybe few more and wider/new ….
No vandalism in the subways a must
Can’t wait it’s gonna be huge!!
Will we be charged more?
this is only because china said that if they don’t adopt the new style trains that the rest of the world is using then they will stop making trains for the MTA.
this fight has been going on for a few years .
What about ELEVATORS FOR STROLLERS AND HANDICAP?
What about the terrible noise level that has 2b the worst ever, is that going 2 improve ? Even in some 3rd world country’s they have quiet’er train’s !
Every major city in the world continuously modernizes every aspect of the city including subways. This is important and overdue to keep New York functioning more efficiently. (Of course all the other things are important too, but that doesn’t detract from this.)
There are so many human needs in the city – from education, health, social services, prison upgrades etc etc – that need attention, it is frustrating how they would spend money on this.