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NYCSubway.sPubDate = "12/20/2005 5:06:15 PM GMT";
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NYCSubway.appHeader = "fact file|New York City transit";
NYCSubway.appFooter = "Source: MTA New York City Transit";
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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Ridership:</b><br>Subway: 4.5 million on an average weekday; about 1.4 billion a year.<br>Bus: 2.4 million on an average weekday; 749 million a year<br>";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Number of subway cars:</b> 6,400 ";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Number of buses:</b> 4,489";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Price:</b> $2 anywhere";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Number of train trips:</b> 1,721,115 annually ";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Subway car mileage:</b> 347,188,000 miles annually";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Longest subway trip with no change of trains:</b> The A train from 207th Street in Manhattan to Far Rockaway in Queens (more than 31 miles).";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Number of bus routes:</b>  207 local and 36 express";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Number of bus stops:</b>  12,693 in 2004";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Longest local bus routes:</b>  Staten Island's S74 and S78; each travels a distance of 16.5 miles.";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Miles of track:</b> 660 in passenger service. ";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Busiest subway station:</b> Times Square-42nd Street boasts four lines as well as a transfer tunnel to a fifth on Eighth Avenue.  ";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>The \"first\" subway:</b> A train operated by pneumatic pressure -- a giant fan -- ran under lower Broadway from 1870 to 1873.";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Early history:</b>  The first official subway system opened in Manhattan on October 27, 1904 along a 9.1-mile long subway line that consisted of 28 stations from City Hall to 145th Street and Broadway.  Service was expanded to the Bronx in 1905, to Brooklyn in 1908, and to Queens in 1915.";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>Tickets to coins to tokens to MetroCards:</b>  From 1904 to 1920 passengers bought tickets before boarding.  Coin-operated turnstiles took nickels and then dimes before 1953 when the fare rose to 15 cents and subway tokens replaced coins.  Tokens were replaced in 2003 by the MetroCard.";

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NYCSubway[i-1].body = "<b>What's with the jazz standard \"Take the A Train\"?:</b>  Written by Billy Strayhorn for Duke Ellington, the jazzy tune celebrates one of the express  train's main stops:  Harlem.  ";

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