From AM-NY:The extension of the No. 7 train to the Far West Side of Manhattan could be months behind schedule, the MTA official overseeing the project said Monday.
Problems have slowed down the project to extend the line to 34th Street and 11th Avenue from its current endpoint of Times Square, MTA capital construction president Michael Horodniceanu said during the agency’s transit committee meeting yesterday.
Although the MTA had previously promised that straphangers could ride to the new stop by December 2013, Horodniceanu said “there is a risk” riders won’t be able to use it for an extra “two or three months.”
The unspecified problems, Horodniceanu said, “pushed us a bit behind… We are working to try to resolve them.” He said he wouldn’t know the extent of the delays until next month.
The city is paying for the $2.1 billion subway extension, as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to improve business on the West Side. A spokesman for the mayor did not comment Monday night on the delay.
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There is no immediacy to have this train go to it's new destination as there is nothing but Javits Center there. Sonn after the Javits Center is upgraded - it will be torn down. Yes you read that correctly if the Gov has his way??
Must have found Hoffa.
# 7 train needs to go EAST, past Main street, not WEST.
Not having a stop at 10th Ave and 42nd Street is another mistake.
If you want to develop the area, don't have just one stop at Javits which was, is, and will be a huge money pit until it is demolished and replaced with the Bella Abzug Houses.
The MTA had to throw extra cash into the quieting the construction on the 2nd Avenue subway. The upper east siders were complaining that the blasting interrupted their beaauty sleep and caused too much dust on their balconies.
# 7 train needs to go EAST, past Main street, not WEST.
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NOOOOOOOO! I moved east to get away from the 7 train riders!
Why they're throwing money at THAT when they cannot even make the closing down of the 7 on weekends (between Queens & Manhattan) more bearable is beyond me.
Like, why not keep the Q trains running into Queens on WEEKENDS when the 7 isn't running, and/or have the N run on a weekday schedule?
And why do they print up all these ads bragging about the new connecting tunnel at Court Square RIGHT before they shut the station down for 3+ months?
Anon No. 7:
That's what the Q is doing.
There's NO NEED to spend millions to have the #7 go further east...for there's NO REAL PURPOSE to be served that will justify wasting the money...
DUMB ASS!
And wasn't there talk of the #7 line being further extended to New Jersey?
There's NO NEED to spend millions to have the #7 go further east...for there's NO REAL PURPOSE to be served that will justify wasting the money...
DUMB ASS!
oh no! the smug mind-dead of NE queens need to get a taste of all the development they want the rest of us to swallow.
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