NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that the MTA is seeking companies to build as many as 2,390 new subway cars as part of a historic order.
The governor called it the “largest subway car order ever” and said it was possible thanks to about $68 billion in funding for the MTA’s 2025–2029 Capital Plan, as well as the 2020-2024 Capital Plan, supported in part by congestion pricing revenues.
The contract includes a base order of 1,140 subway cars to replace the R62 and R62A fleets operating on the 1, 3 and 6 lines with the R262 model, Hochul said.
There’s also the possibility that an additional 1,250 cars will be purchased to replace the R142 and R142A cars on the 2, 4 and 5 lines, she said.
The base contract alone would replace 17.3% of the subway’s entire fleet of 6,574 cars, while the full contract would replace 36.4%, according to the governor.
Hochul touted her administration’s investments in mass transit, saying, “We are in the midst of a public transit renaissance in New York,” while MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said, “New Yorkers are seeing a Golden Age of transit investment.”