106th Street. Rendering courtesy of the MTA
East Harlem is one major step closer to having better subway access for the first time since the 1940s. The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday approved a nearly $2 billion tunnel-boring contract for the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway, which extends the Q train from 96th Street to 125th Street. The tunneling contract marks the largest awarded in agency history.
“This is a meaningful step forward not only for the project but for everyone in East Harlem and Central Harlem,” MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said.
“Locals have waited almost 100 long years for their promised subway extension. Thanks to investments from Governor Hochul and our partners in Washington, today the new MTA is moving forward with the largest tunneling contract in agency history, but – more importantly – with a project that pencils at the lowest cost per rider of any heavy rail project in America.”…