It depends. There’s a $1.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill ready for the Senate to do something, but as long as Mitch McConnell, whose wife ironically is the Secretary of Transportation, and the Republicans are in charge there will be no action on it. They don’t even want to send federal aid (what they called a “Blue State Bailout”) to NY due to Covid19. You can expect Kentucky to continue to get an outsize portion of federal money for its projects though.
The chairman of the House infrastructure committee has made funding the Second Ave. subway a priority. For their part, the White House has rejected the House bill because it “favored urban areas.”
Someone wants to get re-elected. Keep pushing these transit projects along. It’s also refreshing to not have a mayor and governor bickering at each other anymore.
Love it. This is a no-brainer — a mere 1.3 miles to connect the 1, A/C/B/D, and 2/3 to the UES. As expensive as the extension might be I have little doubt it will score massively well for funding purposes.
I used to live in upstate Manhattan and worked in east midtown. This would provide a whole new (easier) route to make that commute, as well as for all the people in or near Harlem.
It’s a very misleading headline (as you might expect from the Post). It says, “to tunnel”, not “the tunnel.” The money they’re referring to is only for the boring of the tunnel, not the construction. They want you to think that 2/3 of the total spent is on consultants, when it’s really about 13% of the total cost.
Here’s a quote from the article:
"Three quarters of that, $3.8 billion was spent on the design, engineering and construction of the tunnel: $655 million went to consultants and outside firms; just $378 million was spent boring the tunnel itself from 63rd Street to 96th Street. "
