The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) New York City Transit Committee has recommended the approval of an order for 435 additional R211 subway cars. This acquisition, which forms part of ...

“The R211 cars are much more reliable than the [1970s-era] R46s that they’re replacing.” The gleaming subway cars are equipped with the latest bells and whistles. Doors on the new R211s are ...

Rumbling through a web of grungy tunnels and weather-beaten elevated tracks, the cars are subjected to overcrowding, underfunding, vandalism ... the oil level in an R211 gear case at the Coney ...