The MTA has pulled all 318 R179 subway cars from its fleet after reports of two cars suddenly uncoupling at the Chambers Street A train station on Wednesday morning. There were no injuries among the ...

The newest fleet of NYC Transit subway cars is having a tough time on the rails lately. Dozens of cars built by Bombardier for the latest train model — known as the R179, which now run on the J/Z and ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Monday it will convene a panel of experts to look into its Bombardier R179 fleet -- which has been plagued with a myriad of issues in recent months ...

MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) started returning its Bombardier R179 fleet to revenue service Sept. 23. The move follows phase one of a comprehensive review of three production quality issues that ...

Congratulations, MTA: You’re the proud owners of more than two dozen high-priced lemons. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has 26 new subway cars that cost taxpayer about $2 million each. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — The first set of new R179 subway ...

The MTA pulled the entire fleet of about 300 new R179 subway cars—the product of a much-criticized $600 million contract between the MTA and Bombardier—after problems with the train doors. NYC Transit ...

As if the MTA needed more bad news this year, the New York Daily News reports that the transit agency's latest batch of subway cars are failing during initial tests. The models are known as the R179 ...