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‘Undesired Uncoupling’ Leads MTA to Pull 264 New Subway Cars Out of Service
- danso 5y ago> In April, the latest month for which there are figures, the R179 cars had a 12-month average of mechanical failures every 150,214 miles, according to the MTA. Systemwide, the nearly 6,700 cars in the MTA fleet had mechanical failures every 131,627 miles. According to a previous report [0], the older subway cars — including those running since 1984 — had a failure rate of 1 every 265,324 miles [0] https://www.thecity.nyc/transportation/2019/11/21/21210682/newest-subway-cars-breaking-down-more-often-than-some-old-ones https://www.thecity.nyc/transportation/2019/11/21/21210682/n...
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