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12/17/2024
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's(MTA) board tomorrow will consider the New York City Transit (NYCT) Committee's approval for an order of 435 additional R211 subway cars at a cost of $1.27 billion.
The order for additional cars from Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. includes 355 closed-end cars and 80 open-gangway cars. It would bring MTA's total number of R211 cars ordered since 2018 to 1,610. Currently, 345 R211 cars are in service throughout the NYCT, said MTA officials in a press release.
If the MTA board approves the order, delivery is expected to begin in 2027.
The R211s eventually will replace all R44s on the Staten Island Railway and the current fleet of R46 and R68 subway cars, which have been in service on several lines for decades.
In January 2018, the board awarded a contract to Kawasaki to design, build and deliver 535 subway cars. In October 2022, the board authorized an extension of the contract for 640 closed-end cars for $1.78 billion. If approved, the new agreement would be the second extension of the original contract.
Meanwhile, NYCT announced two open-gangway trains will begin operating yearly next year on the G Line, making it the second subway line to have open-gangway trains, after open-gangway trains began operating on the C Line earlier this year.