There are now countdown clocks in every station that are more or less reliable (though sometimes glitched out or unreadable), as well as the My MTA smartphone app that synchs to the same data. Residents don't expect it to, visitors get frustrated, and yet the MTA still tries to claim that their official schedules have worth.
Trains don't run on anything that resembles a schedule. Some common representations, however, are true: If you actually want to see graffiti your best bets are the elevated sections of the Flushing line (the 7 train) and the Nassau-Jamaica line (the J/Z train). It would take a massive amount of manpower and money to clean it all off, not to mention the subway would have to be shut down while they're working since power washers and 600v third rail don't get along too well. However, the tunnels themselves are still completely covered in graffiti (as are a lot of the buildings alongside the elevated lines) and probably always will be. It worked, and by 1989, there were no graffiti on the cars. While this was once basically true, subway cars haven't fit this bill since 1990 note By the mid-80s, MTA NYCT had a 5 year program to eradicate graffiti from the city, starting with the subway cars. The trope here is that the subways of New York City are hot, grimy, filthy, encrusted with graffiti, and magnets for street crime. According to That Other Wiki, the subway trails only the metro systems of Tokyo, Moscow and Seoul in annual ridership and carries more passengers than all other rail mass transit systems in the United States combined. Administered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, through its subsidiary, MTA New York City Transit, or MTA NYCT note formerly and still formally known as the New York City Transit Authority, or its abbreviation, NYCTA since The '90s branded as MTA New York City Transit. Not the first, certainly not the best, but the one everybody seems to know. Probably the most famous subway system in the world. Twenty-four routes, 472 stations, 5 million daily riders, 1.5 billion yearly riders (at $2.75 a pop). "Stand clear of the closing doors, please.
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