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Welcome to the Straphangers Campaign’s Transit Know-it-All quiz. The quiz has four levels of five questions each, and you need to answer three questions correctly in each level to advance. When you have finished all three levels, you'll get a special prize! If you get stuck, you can reload the page to start over. Good luck and good commuting!

1. The president of MTA New York City Transit which runs our subway and bus system is

Peter Kalikow
J. Beresford Tipton
Lawrence G. Reuter
Alan Kiepper
someone else

2. The MTA’s general information e-mail address is:

mta@mta.gov
going_your_way@mta.gov
there’s-an-e-mail-right-behind-this-one@mta.gov
they don't have one

3. Which city's subway system has the most riders?

New York City
Moscow
Tokyo
Seoul

4. What’s the longest ride in the subway system without a transfer?

The A train from 207th Street in Manhattan to Far Rockaway
Any trip on the G train
The #5 from Dyre Avenue in the Bronx to Flatbush, Brooklyn.
A rush-hour trip on a crawling and packed Lexington Avenue train
The F train from Jamaica Queens to Coney Island, Brooklyn

5. How many miles of service does the subway system provide on an average weekday?

233,000 miles
633,000 miles
1 million miles
8 million miles
30 million miles