There is this myth that one day there will be a subway here in NYC that goes up and down second avenue. Apparently work is going on to build it but many wonder if we will see it before the martians arrive to fight us for earth.
NY Daily News writer Pete Donohue notes that his sources told him that the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway won’t be open for riders until 2015. This is two years later than the latest provided date of 2015. And in more exciting news, the LIRR tunnel to Grand Central has been pushed back a year to 2016.
“It will not come as shock to the American people that the Second Ave. subway is behind schedule,” Straphanger Campaign leader Gene Russianoff said. “It’s a big complicated project. I think part of this is bowing to the economic realities of what money is available and when.”
The original date for the subway was 2012. The Second Ave. budget is revised upwards slightly to $4.4 billion from about $4.3 billion.
I will keep dreaming that it will be here one day….
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