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SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY WATCH

Second Avenue Subway Is Probably Maybe Making Progress

Friday, May 22, 2015, by Zoe Rosenberg

[All images via MTAPhotos / Flickr.]

Could it be? Actual progress on the Second Avenue Subway? The New York Post frames it as such, reporting that the MTA's perennially plagued new subway line is now more than 80 percent complete, but while that sounds good, the southern portion stretching from 63rd Street to 96th Street was reported as 82 percent complete all of a month ago. However far along the line is, it sounds like it'll be great if it ever opens. The new stations, at 72nd Street, 86th Street, and 96th Street, will have Wi-Fi and climate control technology that will keep the station about 10 degrees cooler than street level (only in the summer, hopefully). The stations' walls be covered in porcelain panels rather than tile because they're easier to keep clean, and the subway is the paragon of clean.

· Second Avenue Subway More than 80 Percent Complete [NYP]

↑ A photo from yesterday says the subway is 82.3 percent complete. Well, .3 percent is progress.
· Second Avenue Subway Inches Closer to Completion [Curbed]
· All Second Avenue Subway coverage [Curbed]

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JEG23

Unfortunately, 82.3 percent after 8 years of construction, suggests that the MTA is unlikely to meet a revenue date in December 2016. As the MTA's issues with mechanical systems on the 7 Line extension suggests, there is still a lot which can delay service, and a 98 percent completed subway still cannot operate. Also, so far as I know, the federal government still has not adjusted its predicted revenue date for the Second Avenue subway from some time in 2017. If there is any consolation to Upper East Siders it is that there will be an end in sight for street-level work, which should bring a sense of normalcy to Second Avenue.

#1. 05/22/15 10:37 AM

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adrastos593

by the time it is ever finished, we will all be retired and wont care.

#2. 05/22/15 10:38 AM

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rr221088

seriously, why are we building only one more line? we really need a 10th avenue subway, not to mention improved service to the outer boroughs and NJ. 

#3. 05/22/15 10:48 AM

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iluvnyc2097

Just wait till they discovered they're going the wrong way!

#4. 05/22/15 11:08 AM

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Hernan5

for the 4,5 and 6 subway lines to be decongested we need to start second phase really soon. Don't wait until the second away be full of stores to begging it. *This Q line has been built for the reach people of the upper east side, how about the working class of East Harlem? should we keep with the struggle for how many years?

#5. 05/22/15 11:12 AM

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Mike L14

@Hernan: Ummmm, Herman. Try this - Google "Second Avenue Subway - Phase II"

#6. 05/22/15 12:31 PM

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adrastos593

@iluvnyc: 

I spit my lunch up over that statement. LOL

#7. 05/22/15 01:56 PM

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Hernan5

@MIKE L you mean that I should not be dreaming about phase II because there is no money?

#8. 05/22/15 02:54 PM

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OneNYersOpinion210

Having been born here, I know of more than a few 80+ y.o. "locals" who are looking forward to riding the Second Ave line (even if it's just for these few stops). The stuff of local legend -- one of those "some day" sayings, since before they were born.

And as they used to say 100+ yrs ago: "NYC will be a great place, if they ever finish it".

#9. 05/22/15 02:55 PM

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Yuppielandia7

@rr22: Hopefully this line will make the other lines less congested, but I completely agree... There's a big portion of NYC (my neighborhood) that is not serviced by subway and transit deprived. Of course these areas are working class and probably won't receive the attention they deserve. I hope DeBlasio's Utica Ave extension gets implemented, but who knows when it'd actually be completed.

#10. 05/22/15 04:17 PM

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Views4Days1257

Another New York City infrastructure project delayed! What a surprise! (NOT!)

#11. 05/22/15 08:52 PM

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