The MTA has for more than two years awaited movement by the Federal Transit Administration to approve $3.4 billion to get the project going.

In 1985-86, with the renaming of the double-lettered trains, it became the R line again.The price does not include the cost to use debt to finance the project, which brings the total bill to $6.9 billion. In 1967, the RR train ran from Astoria, Queens to Bay Ridge in Queens on the BMT Astoria line. RR - The RR appeared starting 1960 to 1961, the same train known as the “Fourth Avenue Local via Tunnel.” Initially, the RR ran from Forest Hills, Queens to Bay Ridge in Brooklyn. The LL ran today’s L train route and was renamed in 1967. LL - The LL train is a variant from the 16 train, which was from the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) subway–the second of the three transit companies that formed the MTA. All three of these train routes are currently serviced by the J and Z trains. The KK and MM ran from Jamaica to 57th Street. JJ / KK / MM - The JJ and KK trains were counterparts, the latter running during rush hour only and converting to the JJ during off-peak times. The Court Street station, now decommissioned, is the site of the New York Transit Museum. The single-letter H train ran a route similar to the Rockaway Parkway S, and the A train of today. The HH Train pictured above was a shuttle that ran between Court Street and Hoyt Schermerhorn, only on weekdays (though it was meant to run to the future Euclid Station). HH - The HH and H trains have an interesting history because neither of them exist today. During the 1939 World’s Fair, the GG was renamed the “S Special.” In 1985, the GG was no longer, and has had the single-G lettering ever since. GG - The GG train ran on today’s G line, but had no express designation.

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