From the Queens Tribune:
Briarwood residents will have to wait a little longer for their streets and subway to return to normal.
The reconstruction of the Briarwood-Van Wyck F train station entrance has been pushed back from the end of 2013 to March 2014, due to the discovery of lead paint. The renovation of the subway entrance, along with the installation of an elevator, is happening alongside a major project to improve traffic conditions on the Van Wyck Expressway.
The original completion date for the subway entrance was listed as Sept. 2013. It was then pushed back to Dec. 2013 due to design changes. However, lead paint in the pedestrian tunnel has to be removed before the area is safe to open, moving the timetable to next March.
The subway work was bid on and won by Ecco, for $9.9 million. This price tag included all of the work associated with moving the passageway, rebuilding the entrances, excavation, the new elevator and more. The cost has increased by about $1.7 million due to changes in field conditions and materials used. The lead paint removal added another $300,000 to the total.
The subway entrance is part of the State DOT’s Kew Gardens Interchange Reconstruction, which is made of two separate contracts and is due to be completed in 2016.
4 comments:
Anyone notify the MTA workers and the hundred or so transit police who are stationed there?
What a total disaster there! Europe or Asia would have this project completed in no time and with spectacular results . Never expect that here in NYC or the US...
"discovery" of lead Paint? They didn't know, or suspect, it was there? Despite the gazillion requirements for testing? Classic crap.
Europe, not so much. Asia? Sure, by paying people $3.50 a day, kicking people off of their land, and eliminating all worker safety rules.
So yeah, good comparison.
Now, im not defending the US workers on this one. The unions are nothing but scumbag incubators, but it is worse elsewhere.
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