MTA's Biggest Projects Over Budget and Behind Schedule
One of the topics I have done my best to cover with this blog is public transportation in NYand especially how badly the MTA has done with the Second Avenue subway...
The massive projects go on, we can only hope the situation gets better.
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 06:01 PM
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East Side Access as January 25, 2012.
(Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin)
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been drawing
negative headlines and scrutiny because of recent performance problems,
including last Thursday's evening rush hour power failure and last
December's fatal derailment. But that's not all. Some of the MTA's
biggest projects are way over budget and behind schedule.
WNYC's transportation reporter, Jim O'Grady, said the MTA's
East Side Access project was supposed to be completed in 2009 and cost
$4.3 million, but now it won't be done until at least 2021 and its'
costs have skyrocketed to more than $10 billion.
"Chairman Prendergast compared all the mining and excavation alone to the Panama Canal," O'Grady said. "It is the largest infrastructure project in North America."
"Chairman Prendergast compared all the mining and excavation alone to the Panama Canal," O'Grady said. "It is the largest infrastructure project in North America."
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