Hochul Urges Swift Start Of $6 Billion Second Phase Of Second Avenue Subway (neighborhoods, live)
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Flanked by local and federal lawmakers, as well as the acting chairman of the MTA, Governor Kathy Hochul toured a section of the concrete shell that’s a partially completed tunnel under the Second Avenue in East Harlem. A remnant and reminder of a project that has started and stalled for nearly half a century.
When the federal infrastructure bill passed earlier this month, it doubled the amount of funding in a federal grant program that the MTA planned to apply for to fund the next phase of the Second Avenue subway project. And the governor took the opportunity to underscore the urgency of getting to work, hopefully in 2022.
“All I know is if we don’t start now, the costs are going to go higher in the future, this has to be done,” Hochul said, speaking to reporters after the brief tour on Tuesday.
Are they going to use the existing abandoned tunnels? The working 2nd Ave subway tunnels were dug differently and are much deeper.
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