(Evan Simko-Bednarski / New York Daily News) The R-62 cars of the No. 3 subway line were once the symbol of a renewed MTA. Funded, in part, by the agency’s first five-year capital program in the ...

“Those subway cars are past their useful life,” Janno ... Those include the R62s, which rolled out in 1984 and still run along the 1, 3 and 6 lines. The remaining R68 models from 1986, which ...

So far, the MTA has ordered nearly 1,200 new R211 subway cars — worth an estimated $3.2 billion — that will feature wider doors for speedier boarding, digital displays with more information ...

The new trains can’t come soon enough for a city that’s been dramatically reminded in recent weeks of how infrastructure problems can mount due to older subway cars. On Jan. 3, a rider pulled ...

The MTA plans to order dozens more “open gangway” subway cars and redeploy ... gangway models as part of a larger $1.3 billion order of 435 new train cars that are scheduled to be delivered ...

“Today is a big day for our subway system,” NYC Transit ... long platforms,” Lieber said. The $1.3 billion order also includes 355 standard R211 cars — the R211A that has been running ...