Posts
Second Ave. Subway’s Next Leg Progresses With Promise of Congestion Pricing Funds
Engineering proposals on tunneling and structural shell work are due by March 5 and a contract is expected to be awarded by the third quarter of this year. This article originally appeared in The City. By Jose Martinez Follow @x NEW YORK - The launch of congestion pricing has put the MTA’s plan to stretch the Second Avenue Subway from the Upper East Side to Harlem one stop closer to its final destination. Days before the Jan. 5 start of the vehicle-tolling initiative that is looked to as a major source of funding for the $7.1 billion expansion project, the MTA issued a request for proposals from firms that can design, engineer and build the extension of the Q line between 96th and 125th streets. “The Second Avenue Subway is one of the most important mass transit projects in the nation and today it’s driving forward, thanks to congestion pricing,” Jamie Torres-Springer, president of the MTA’s construction divisio...
