second avenue subway construction from this past saturday 8/28/2010

 

 

 

do you like your massive construction project pics? if so this thread’s for you - lol!

 

i’m never in this neighborhood but since I was the other day i walked along 2nd ave from the 70’s to the 90’s to check out the 2nd ave subway construction progress. i was surprised by all the crew and activity I saw, at least 50-75 workers along the route and non-stop action. i was also very impressed by how well the street disruptions were being handled.

 

first, you can read all about it via wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway

The total cost of the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) line is expected to be over $17 billion.

 

last thursday the TBM doubled estimates and achieved a one day (not so) boring record:

http://thelaunchbox.blogspot.com/2010/08/tbm-now-mining-faster-than-planned.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheLaunchBox+%28The+Launch+Box%29

 

^the above launchbox blog sez:

“The machine has now mined a total of 1,760 feet of TBM Run No. 1 (i.e. the west tunnel) as of yesterday - which by my calculations would put it at about 85th Street.”

 

TBM Run No. 1 (west tunnel)

92nd Street to 65th Street

7,200 linear feet

40 foot starter tunnel

1,760 feet mined w/TBM to date

5,400 feet to run

 

 

ANNOUNCED COMPLETION DATES FOR PHASE ONE OF THE SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY

2/2018

12/2016

8/2017 - 6/2018

7/2016 - 7/2017

2015

2014

2013

2012

 

^ i.e. the date when Q Line service will be extended to the Upper East Side, via Second Avenue, with station stops at 63rd, 72nd, 86th, and 96th Streets. so don’t hold yr breath!

 

*lots more interesting info on that blog if you like to dig in!  also, here’s a eye-popping photo I found of the launchbox (around 90th-96th streets) from 5/2010:

 

maps:

 

 

 

 

 

lastly, i see we even have news from this morning - its dangerous and toxic down there!:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/subway_made_me_sick_suit_SbPdNoOf030qC4DTjO68BN?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

 

 

“hey whats going on here?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“we’re workin here…brother!”

 

 

 

 

finally, these are from later on, toward the end of the day

 

 

 

*** i hope you enjoyed a peek at a day in the life of this big transit project ***

 

About time!

I wonder if they’re going to bring back the W when they make the Q turn up Second Ave. instead of going to Queens.  Although I assume they’ll just cut back service to Queens even more, as it’s been in perpetual decline since I moved there 3 years ago.

I recently walked through the portion near 96th St. It's a complete mess. The residents and businesses located near the planned stations are none too happy about this project. Some tenants have been forced to relocate (after all, it's so easy to find a similarly affordable apartment in New York!). I also remember how work on this line had been abandoned thirty years ago around the time I first moved here, and how I could have benefited all those years if it had been up and running as originally planned (2nd Avenue being much closer to me than Lexington). When the project is completed, I'll probably be too arthritic to make it up and down the subway stairs. Thanks MTA! :-)

I recently walked through the portion near 96th St. It's a complete mess. The residents and businesses located near the planned stations are none too happy about this project. Some tenants have been forced to relocate (after all, it's so easy to find a similarly affordable apartment in New York!). I also remember how work on this line had been abandoned thirty years ago around the time I first moved here, and how I could have benefited all those years if it had been up and running as originally planned (2nd Avenue being much closer to me than Lexington). When the project is completed, I'll probably be too arthritic to make it up and down the subway stairs. Thanks MTA! :)

 

You can still ride.  All stations are to be ADA compliant, gramps!

I recently walked through the portion near 96th St. It's a complete mess. The residents and businesses located near the planned stations are none too happy about this project. Some tenants have been forced to relocate (after all, it's so easy to find a similarly affordable apartment in New York!). I also remember how work on this line had been abandoned thirty years ago around the time I first moved here, and how I could have benefited all those years if it had been up and running as originally planned (2nd Avenue being much closer to me than Lexington). When the project is completed, I'll probably be too arthritic to make it up and down the subway stairs. Thanks MTA! :)

 

You can still ride.  All stations are to be ADA compliant, gramps!

ageist! lol

I recently walked through the portion near 96th St. It's a complete mess. The residents and businesses located near the planned stations are none too happy about this project. Some tenants have been forced to relocate (after all, it's so easy to find a similarly affordable apartment in New York!). I also remember how work on this line had been abandoned thirty years ago around the time I first moved here, and how I could have benefited all those years if it had been up and running as originally planned (2nd Avenue being much closer to me than Lexington). When the project is completed, I'll probably be too arthritic to make it up and down the subway stairs. Thanks MTA! :-)

 

thats our evdon -- always looking at the glass half empty - lol!  :laugh:

 

yes the neighborhoods and the workers had to adjust to the new project, but they have and what is truly amazing is how relatively little it is disrupting things now given the sheer magnitude of what they are doing. back in the old days of building subways forget it -- look at old pictures it was horrid vs today.

 

and yes of course some people/buildings will be displaced for entrances and air shafts. nothing to be done about that. if you weren't living there since the 60's you knew it was coming at some point.

 

you want to hear complaining just wait til they get down to bothering the yunnies in don's beloved east village --  haha! otoh i wouldnt worry about it don because we'll all be dead and gone before construction ever gets that far!