Buttigieg approves $3.4B grant for 2nd Avenue subway, less than half the project’s cost
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg signed off on a $3.4 billion grant for the MTA’s extension of the Second Avenue subway into East Harlem Saturday, marking the latest step forward for a project New York officials first started planning nearly a century ago.for the extension, which aims to add three new stops to the Q line, which currently terminates at East 96th Street.
MTA officials have already put out bids for a contract to relocate utilities in the area where the subway extension is planned. And much of the line has already been built. The MTA, in the 1970s, built out tunnels beneath Second Avenue between 110th and 120th Streets, but the agency abandoned work on the project in 1974 as the city faced a financial crisis.
The new tracks will span 1.8 miles, and the MTA will spend roughly $4.3 billion per mile of track, or about $814,000 per foot. That means the $3.4 billion Buttigieg signed off on Saturday is enough to pay for just over three-quarters of a mile worth of subway. “America has struggled to deliver infrastructure as cost effectively as other places around the world, which is why a major line of effort in our department is to find all of the means that we have, weather that’s on the bureaucratic side or on the engineering side, to accelerate and improve the cost effectiveness of our infrastructure spending,” he said.“On a per-passenger basis, it can actually be less expensive than a lot of other projects,” Buttigieg said.
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