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| | 100 years of the New York Subway International Railway Journal - Find Articles |
 | | You can assess the New York Subway in purely numerical terms--track-km (1377), daily trains operated (6700), employees (48,000), annual capital investment ($US 2 billion), even objects as obscure as signal relays (327,156) or track circuits (11,646)--but you wouldn't be doing it justice. |
 | | The president of MTA New York City Transit (NYCT), Mr Lawrence Reuter, calls the complex system he oversees "unique in the world." He notes that, unlike most other metros, NYCT has local and express tracks that were built into the system a century ago. |
 | | For New Yorkers, the Subway, it's been said, "is like food--something they can't do without." New York Times staff writer Randy Kennedy, best known for his "Tunnel Vision" columns that appeared in The New York Times from 2000 to 2003, puts it succinctly in all editorial he wrote for the June issue of Railway Age: |
| www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQQ/is_7_44/ai_n6131824 (609 words) |
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