Second Avenue Subway (Lexington: transfer, construction, subsidized)
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It is progressing, but at a pace most projects in NY do. The new "inauguration" was recently postponed by the MTA to 2017. If you are young, you still have a chance.
Some of the pictures look promising but from the street it is hard to tell what is or is not happening.
Yes you can see cut and cover in certain areas where there are openings. There is a nice deep chasm open at 92nd at just North of 96th (presumably all station construction) another peek-a-boo is often possible at 86th.
Even with willingness to climb a scaffold (I did) the view is limited by the light differential ..like looking into a dark closet.
I am planning with some hope that I might take my first ride from 86th or 96th down to 63rd sometime in 2016. (Lord willin' and the creek don't flood. )
It will also be nice to zoom over to and down Sixth Avenue on the Q train without a change at 59th.
Of course with a subway system that cannot clean debris off tracks, wash walls, or run weekend trains without looking like the Three Stooges on thorazine, I doubt that their time estimates have much meaning.
As far as 125th to the Financial District goes: NEVER GONNA HAPPEN! They have no money for it.
Last edited by Kefir King; 02-28-2013 at 07:00 AM..
Yeah, they've been trying to build this line for the past 90 years and sadly we're only getting three new stations in about a mile and a half worth of it for the forseeable future.
Like it was said, no money. Fares are going up on Monday too. What happened to South Ferry and the unfinished WTC Transit Center because of Sandy certainly doesn't help.
There's a big difference betwen 72nd and 63rd. In essence the train will become the Q train connecting Second Avenue into the Broadway line and then down Broadway. EXTREMELY useful.
I'm a bit confused...will one change at 63rd and Lex to get the F train thus haviing the option of a Broadway or a Sixth Avenue train.
Are they building a tunnel under the park to run the Q across 63rd to connect into 57th and 7th Ave or is there already am existing tunnel connecting the BMT with the IND (F-train?)
It will relieve a lot of the nightmare congestion on the East Side IRT line and save a lot of people long walks up and down some steep hills.
Last edited by Kefir King; 03-01-2013 at 07:11 AM..
As far as 125th to the Financial District goes: NEVER GONNA HAPPEN! They have no money for it.
I think it will happen. It just has to take a ton of subsidized money. The MTA is full of red tape and a total mess with regards to that--so unless they have some infusion of a few billion bucks, they are incapable of covering the cost at all.
I think the first leg will probably open in 2017, and the 2nd leg may not open until 4-5 yrs after that. I'd see a full extension and opening in 2030. (maybe wishful thinking)
I think NYC HAS to get it done though. With the city approaching 9 million people within 10 years or so, the overcrowding is only getting worse. There's no way it cannot be built. They have to find the $$$.
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