| New York boasts extensive transportation
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| | and variety, the city's transport
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| infrastructure. Engineering difficulties
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| | infrastructure is also beset with ongoing
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| because of the terrain of the state and
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| | congestion, reliability, and funding
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| the unique issues of the city brought on
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| | challenges.
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| by urban crowding have had to be overcome
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| | New York is distinguished from all other
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| since the state was young. Population
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| | American cities by its use of public
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| expansion of the state generally followed
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| | transportation. While nearly 90% of
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| the path of the early waterways, first
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| | Americans drive to their jobs, public
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| the Hudson River and then the Erie Canal.
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| | transit is the overwhelmingly dominant
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| Today, railroad lines and the New York
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| | form of travel for New Yorkers. According
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| State Thruway follow the same general
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| | to the 2000 U.S. Census, New York City is
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| route.
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| | the only locality in the United States
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| Besides New York City, many of the other
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| | where more than half of all households do
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| cities have urban and regional public
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| | not own a car (the figure is even higher
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| transportation. Syracuse is the smallest
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| | in Manhattan, over 75%; nationally, the
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| city in the U.S. to have a commuter rail
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| | rate is 8%). About one in every three
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| line, known as OnTrack. Buffalo also has
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| | users of mass transit in the United
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| a lightrailsystem, and Rochester had a
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| | States and two-thirds of the nation's
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| subway system, although it is mostly
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| | rail riders live in New York and its
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| destroyed. Only a small part exists under
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| | suburbs.
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| the old Erie Canal Aquaduct.
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| | New York's uniquely high rate of public
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| New York City New York City is one of the
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| | transit use and its pedestrian-friendly
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| most densely populated cities in the
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| | character make it one of the most
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| world, allowing it to facilitate one of
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| | energy-efficient cities in the country.
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| the most extensive subway and bus systems
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| | Gasoline consumption in New York City is
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| in the world. It is also famous for many
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| | at the rate where the national average
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| of its bridges and tunnels. New York City
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| | was in the 1920s.[4] The transit system's
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| offers visitors a bounty of famous
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| | efficiency is such that despite the New
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| streets and avenues.
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| | York metropolitan area's ranking as one
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| Many commuter railroad lines enter and
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| | of the most populous in the world, hours
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| leave New York City, including the Long
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| | of delay per person caused by traffic
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| Island Rail Road, MTA Metro-North, the
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| | congestion is less than in far smaller
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| PATH system and many of NJTransit's rail
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| | cities like San Francisco. This savings
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| services.
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| | translates into reduced fuel costs and
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| The transportation system of New York
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| | consumption as well as reduced costs from
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| City is one of the most complex of any
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| | wasted labor productivity. Major
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| city in the United States. It is a system
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| | additions to the city's transport
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| of superlatives, from the largest subway
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| | infrastructure have been stalled since
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| network in the world by track mileage to
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| | the 1970s, however. Deferred maintenance
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| the longest suspension bridge in North
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| | of existing facilities hurt the
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| America, from its iconic yellow cabs to
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| | reliability of trains and subways.
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| 112,000 daily bicyclists, from the
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| | Recently the city has reinvested billions
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| world's first mechanically ventilated
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| | of dollars in its subway system and
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| vehicular tunnel to landmark train
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| | proposed several multi-billion dollar
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| stations and new multibillion-dollar
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| | projects intended to increase capacity.
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| airport terminals. New York has pioneered
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| | In 2006, a study of the 50 largest U.S.
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| transportation like no other city in the
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| | cities by the environmental organization
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| United States; it even has an aerial
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| | SustainLane identified New York as the
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| tramway used to whisk commuters from
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| | city most able to endure an oil crisis
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| Roosevelt Island into Manhattan in less
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| | with an extended gasoline price shock in
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| than five minutes. Along with its size
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| | the $3 to $8 dollar per gallon range.
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