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    MTA Subway Mean Distance Between Failures: Beginning 2015

    Metadata Updated: March 28, 2026

    Mean Distance Between Failures reports how frequently train mechanical problems cause delays by month and subway car class. It is the main indicator for subway car reliability used at NYCT and is used to compare performance over time and across different subway car types. Only a small proportion of subway delays are due to malfunctioning trains.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 24, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date March 28, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NY State JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 24, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date March 28, 2026
    Publisher data.ny.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.ny.gov/api/views/e2qc-xgxs
    Data First Published 2024-08-28
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-20
    Category Transportation
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ny.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 48225cd6-027d-4beb-8f03-37d3e1e93e50
    Harvest Source Id 36f923f9-f915-42dc-a4de-1a5e3a17d284
    Harvest Source Title NY State JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.ny.gov/d/e2qc-xgxs
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 43d023fdee203282e98c690be9d3ee1c104013d7178a7e7d6ee1e5794239c111
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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