New York

Albany

A cybertram for Albany?


Buffalo
Light rail photos from LightRail.Com
Map
THE CITIZENS RAPID TRANSIT COMMITTEE - Light Rail advocacy and expansion of the Bufallo metro rail
Auto Free in Buffalo
Photos from Jon Bell
NFTA home page
The Best of the Bunch - Buzzard's antagonistic Buffalo Subway System



 
New York City
subway, ALRT

The New York City subway, arguably one of the greatest in the world, is where I first got hooked on subways. From the time I was able to walk, i would insist on standing on the street grating to bask in what I considered to be the wonderful odor of the subway - a strange mixture of trash, urine and hot steel wafting to Roosevelt Avenue in gasps of hot, metal air.

The New York subway consists of a large conventional metro system, a small rapid transit railway on Staten Island, and a newly built automated light rail line which connects JFK Airport and Jamaica. In 2002, it was announced that the North Shore Staten Island line may be rebuilt. It is not decided yet whether the line will use LRT technology or become an extension of the existing line.
 

  • New York City Subway Resources  - Arguably the finest site on NYC subways. Lots of photos, a discussion board and links.  Has photos from other areas, including  Newark, London, Singapore, Staten Island, Philadelphia and Boston
  • New York City Transit unofficial home page
  • New York MTA's official Home Page
  • The New York City Subway System
  • The New York Subway
  • New York City Transit
  • NYC Transit Facts & Figures
  • New York City Metro Area Rail Resources
  • Traveling By Subway
  • New York City Transit
  • New York City's First Subway
  • New Rail Link For JFK - Article
  • STV Systems JFK Contract Award
  • Bombardier Signs JFK LRT contract - company press release
  • Jon Boy's Sights and Sounds of the New York Subway
  • Staten Island Rapid Transit - the Railroad Beside My Window
  • The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey - Home Page
  • Crazy Train (Velocity NYC e-zine)  - What I love about the NYC subway - not!
  • Sight and Sounds of the New York Subway
  • Transit Talk - Mostly buses but some subway, PATH and NJT stuff in the photos area
  • The Brooklyn Trolley Museum is working on a dream: to restore trolley service to Brooklyn!

    From ExplorerPress, a few books for sales on the NYC Subway system.


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    More NYC Subway Photos July 2003
     

    PATH system (New York - New Jersey)
    Metro
     

    Staten Island Rapid Transit (part of NYC subway system)
    metro
     
    Railway Transportation of Staten Island
    Rumors from USENET
    Staten Island Transit nostalgia page

    Niagara Falls
    Seasonal rubber-tired people mover. It's just a bus folks!
    A site about upgrading the APM in Niagara Falls

    Rochester
    deceased subway
     

  • The Rochester Subway
  • Rochester, Minnesota has a subway...for people I think!
  • Rochester Subway Post from the NY Railfan Forum
  • Part of a message board thread about the Rochester subway
  • Underground in the old Rochester Subway
  • The home page for the Rochester Rail Transit Committee is trying to bring back the Rochester subway. If successful, the LRT, and possibly subway, would be run by the existing bus authority.


    • Syracuse
    NOT a subway but info on the Syracuse commuter railway short line, OnTrack City Express

    Miscellaneous
    Daniel Convissor's Home Page - 400 transit advocacy links and files, mostly covering the NY and NJ areas. Of particular interest was the essay about the mythical tunnel to Staten Island and other Staten Island transit issues.