MTA representatives appeared before Community Board 14 at the Knights of Columbus in Rockaway Beach last week to preview the Rockaway Rehabilitation and Resiliency Project, a 44-month construction project that will redesign and rebuild much of the peninsula’s existing transportation infrastructure.
The project, scheduled to start later this year and finish in the summer of 2026, will repair the Rockaway Viaduct, Hammels Wye Viaduct and South Channel Bridge, while also adding a signal tower to Beach 105th Street in Rockaway Park. This undertaking by the MTA is inspired by Hurricane Sandy, which resulted in seven months of repair to the train tracks to get them back in service from late 2012 to early 2013.
“It was a tremendous feat in such a short period of time,” said Deirdre Harvey, the project CEO at MTA Construction & Development. “We’re here to try to make the line even more resilient so we don’t have such an interruption in the future.”
During the project’s construction, south Queens residents will face service interruptions for the A-train and the Rockaway Park shuttle, starting later this year as the MTA works on the tracks at Broad Channel and Howard Beach.
The project will then eventually move toward major structural repairs at the Hammels Wye Viaduct, where the A-train and Rockaway Park shuttle separate, and South Channel Bridge, which connects both of these lines from Broad Channel to the Rockaway peninsula. As a result, there will be a required 16-week shutdown of service from January 2025 to May 2025.
Alternates modes of commuting during this period include a non-stop bus shuttle from Far Rockaway to the Howard Beach-JFK Airport station, a local bus shuttle from Beach 67th Street and Broad Channel to the Howard Beach-JFK Airport station, and a subway shuttle that goes across the peninsula between Rockaway Park and Far Rockaway.
The MTA representatives said they would also “enhance” the existing bus service in the area, which includes the Q53 and Q22, as well as cross-honor MetroCards on the Long Island Rail Road at the LIRR-Far Rockaway branch station. There are also ongoing conversations with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to potentially increase ferry service, according to the representatives, but this has yet to come to fruition.
11 comments:
This is all Joe Biden’s fault.
What a waste. It’ll all be destroyed by the next Hurricane. All this for a bunch of climate denying TrumpTurds on Breezy Point.
One look at the mook in the mask (so many lols) and you know that person is a complete idiot. Like much of the MTA staff I'm sure.
Meanwhile, it's been more than 10 years since Sandy, and we were promised these storms would have an ever increasing frequency. Oh yeah, that's all just more baloney. The government lies to your about EVERYTHING.
Goodness, I almost thought those glasses were a bra on the tall one
Why is she wearing a mask?
Summer Time with the DemocRat Party !
Is that a relative of Cousin It?
Who cares. Trains are for communists, poor people and immigrants.
Has anyone taken the subway in the last three years? Every trip you feel threatened. This isn't about a failure of policing. It's about a Commie Mayor who decided that his boutique Marxism was more important than people's lives. Debozio should be put on trial.
Lets face it , these climate reports are pure propaganda.
In retrospect I should have ALWAYS worn masks in the subways and elevators,
vene before the pandemic. I always caught the worst colds in public transit.
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