LINCOLN, Neb. – A railway car plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, is poised to secure a large portion of a $3.6 billion contract to produce New York City subway cars.
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New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to vote Wednesday on Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing’s contract to build more than 1,600 new subway cars.
The contract is made up of a $1.4 billion base order of 535 subway cars, for delivery by July 2020. There are options to add more than 1,000 cars, bringing the total project cost to more than $3.6 billion. The cars would have features for safety and modernization.
Kawasaki spokesman Jason Hellbusch says most of the manufacturing would be completed at the Lincoln plant. He says a facility in Yonkers, New York would work on final assembly and testing.
