The MTA plans to order dozens more “open gangway” subway cars and redeploy some of the airy cars the agency already owns to the G line, transit officials announced Monday. The modern cars do not have ...

The MTA board is poised to buy 80 new “open-gangway” R211T subway cars, part of a larger, 435-car purchase option from train-builder Kawasaki that was delayed by the pause on congestion pricing.

Subway officials plan to spend more than $1.2 billion on hundreds of new train cars as the agency seeks to modernize the system’s aging fleet. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board on ...