New York City's subway system gonna be lit in 2020, peep how its gonna look after overhaul

[JordanWearinThe45]

The New York City subway system is gearing up for a major overhaul meant to bring a "modernized look and feel" to lighting, wayfinding and subway cars by the year 2020. At a press conference on Monday, Governor Andrew Guomo announced the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $27 billion, five-year plan to add 1,025 new subway cars, more informative digital screens, better security features and -- most importantly for anyone who needs to get some work done underground – WiFi and USB charging ports in the cars and stations.

"People want to work, and they want their device to work 24 hours a day," Governor Cuomo during the event at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. "They don't want to have to look up. There has to be WiFi, and there need to be charging ports."

In addition to free juice and an internet connection, the new subway cars will sport "full color digital customer information displays," as well as new digital ad space. On a practical level, the cars will offer wider doors to expedite boarding times and up to 750 of new cars will feature an open-ended design that allows for more passenger space.

Governor Guomo's announcement also included plans to create a new, unified design standard for all subway stations, starting with some extensive renovations at 31 key stations across the city. Like the train cars, those stations will be getting amenities like WiFi, improved cellular connections and new digital signage with real-time updates at entrances and count down clocks on the platform – all while being careful to consider each station's "architectural legacy." If the first phase of renovations is successful, there are plans to upgrade another 170 stations in the future.

While the plan is still in the proposal stage at this point, the MTA did manage to meet their goal of rolling out a new generation of WiFi-equipped buses on the streets of Queens earlier this year. And if the city's LinkNYC smart kiosk plan stays on track, there will be a total of 4,550 WiFi public WiFi hot spots above ground by the year 2020 as well.

NYC's next subway cars have WiFi and USB ports built-in

 

[Kliq_Souf]

Digitallllll Display

 

[Concerning VIolence]

Looks the same.

 

[ORDER_66]

Yeah ok... any word on when all this gonna be completed?!?! 2020?!?! Yeah ok it's already 2016 your not gonna be finished with all this shyt in 4 years

 

[TRY GOD]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

unless theres more lines, and stops, no one cares.

 

[eastsideTT]

those digital ads better not have fukkin audio capability and i really pray they dont let companies/corporations sponsor stops. having entire stops be a massive fukkin ad. city of ads, cops and cameras...great

2020 is only 4 years away. 2050 is more realistic with how the mta moves.

gangway cars are gonna be sick though, theres a possibility they'll have gangway cars for the 2nd ave line

instead of giving people wifi and digital ads, they should use some of this money to extend lines or build new ones so the massive amount of people cut off from the subway in a lot of areas of queens and the bronx can get service. its fukkin ridiculous. we dont need wifi,,,we need more trains and less overcrowding. in the last 10 years the trains have gotten so crowded its insane. the system cant handle the amount of people. plus you got neighborhoods completely cut off from mta. look at rochdale village...about 8000 people live there and im sure half of them commute to the city..no train there. mta should figure out how to handle the current problems before they add some fancy maps, ads and usb ports and pretend like its all good

 

[Canon]

cool can't wait to watch people scream and fight in there

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Damn

 

[HoldThisL]

Lmao shyt is not gonna be nowhere close to the pictures. Its gonna be dirty,smelly, and rat infested like it always has been.

 

[ORDER_66]

instead of giving people wifi and digital ads, they should use some of this money to extend lines or build new ones so the massive amount of people cut off from the subway in a lot of areas of queens and the bronx can get service. its fukkin ridiculous. we dont need wifi,,,we need more trains and less overcrowding. in the last 10 years the trains have gotten so crowded its insane. the system cant handle the amount of people. plus you got neighborhoods completely cut off from mta. look at rochdale village...about 8000 people live there and im sure half of them commute to the city..no train there. mta should figure out how to handle the current problems before they add some fancy maps, ads and usb ports and pretend like its all good

THIS!!!!!

There are so many places without a damn subway in nyc shyt is crazy!!!

 

[Ronnie Lott]

The Bay Area's subway system is light years ahead of NYC's

shyt, to be real. We started underground subways before anybody else

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Digitallllll Display

They already have it on some of the cars

And they still have another set of cars that they ordered a few years back that yet to be delivered.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expecting its order of state-of-the-art trains to be delayed, meaning ancient train cars now on the C and J/Z lines will stick around until 2022, according to budget documents and transit officials.

The old trains — a model called R32, which were considered cutting edge at the 1964 World’s Fair — are unable to leave life on the rails by 2018 as planned, costing the agency $50.2 million over the next four years in maintenance and extra train staff, according to the budget docs.

“This retirement will need to be delayed until 2022 due to delays in the delivery of (new) R179 replacement cars,” as well as growing ridership, the budget document said.

The MTA never gets things done on time. The 2nd Avenue subways is MONTHS behind (and that's only phase 1)

 

[eastsideTT]

THIS!!!!!

There are so many places without a damn subway in nyc shyt is crazy!!!

its insane. queens has it the worst. if you live east of the jamaica stops , which a ton of people do, you're looking at a 1.5-2 hour commute into the city. you gotta have a car in a lot of hoods in queens and the bronx basically. and they are making it less friendly for drivers with crazy tolls, bike lanes, less parking, etc...

 

[Collateral]

The hooligans just gonna fukk everything up and make the subway look dirty and ghetto again. nikkas can't have nice things