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| DATE | 2020-04-26 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] and for some good news (for the homeless - a new
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MTA Completes Overhaul of L Train’s Subway Tunnel
Repairs to a line linking Brooklyn and Manhattan are finished ahead of
schedule
The First Avenue stop in 2018. Work on the L train line began in April 2019.
Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press
By Paul Berger
April 26, 2020 2:30 pm ET
A project to repair a New York City subway tunnel connecting Brooklyn
and Manhattan has been completed ahead of schedule, despite the
coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo swooped in last year to upend longstanding
plans by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to close a
section of the L train line for repairs for 15 months.
That stretch of line, between Brooklyn and the west side of Manhattan,
carries 275,000 daily riders on an average weekday. At the time, there
were fears its closure could cause crowding on alternate subway lines,
flood streets with cars, add significant time to commutes and hurt local
businesses.
Mr. Cuomo, who controls the MTA, embraced an alternate plan suggested by
a panel of experts led by the deans of engineering schools at Columbia
and Cornell universities. The new proposal used different construction
techniques, which allowed the line to remain open during the daytime and
to operate with reduced frequency on nights and weekends.
Work began in April 2019 with little disruption in the city.
Mr. Cuomo said at an unrelated news conference Sunday that he had
pressed ahead with the alternative proposal despite significant
opposition. “It opens today and the proof is in the pudding,” he said.
An MTA spokeswoman said that, with the repairs complete, the frequency
of overnight and weekend service on the L train will increase.
The MTA has reduced subway, bus and commuter-rail service because of the
coronavirus.
Subway ridership has plummeted since the governor and Mayor Bill de
Blasio closed many businesses and asked people to stay home as much as
possible.
Currently, fewer than 500,000 riders use the subway system each day,
compared with 5.5 million daily riders before the coronavirus pandemic
began.
Write to Paul Berger at Paul.Berger-at-wsj.com
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