The MTA is moving forward with the next step to expand the Second Avenue Subway line in Harlem.
The MTA board has approved an approximately $2 billion tunnel boring contract, which will extend Q train service from 96th Street to 125th Street. As part of the same contract, crews will excavate space for the future 125th Street Station. The expansion includes three new ADA-accessible stations at 106th Street, 116th Street and 125th Street, where the Q expansion will connect with the existing 4, 5 and 6 lines.
In the 1970s, a route was built to accommodate a future station at 116th Street. The new project uses that same route and extends it to 125th Street. That will save the MTA an estimated $500 million in costs…