new york dIt has the largest transfer of funds in 100 years to modernize roads, bridges and the Metro transport system, investments in the next decade are projected at 170 billion dollars, after the approval in Congress of the Infrastructure Law signed by the President Joe Biden, last November.
The New York Times He indicated that Metro users in that megacity are familiar with waiting; the already usual delays affect the system, so there is hardly any room to get on the trains.
For years, – highlighted the New York newspaper – the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) told us that the increase in the number of passengers and overcrowding were to blame. However, passenger numbers actually held steady between 2013 and 2018 as delays mounted, with the authority recently acknowledging that overcrowding was not to blame.
Instead, two decisions made by the MTA years ago, one to slow down trains and the other to improve worker safety, appear to have thrown the Metro system into a crisis with no easy solution.
During the first stage of the modernization, an injection of 10 billion dollars is proposed for the MTA, this investment would impact the lives of millions of New Yorkers in the future, since the extension of the Second Avenue Subway line in Manhattan would be built.
Progress will be made in the revitalization of the Port Authority bus terminal at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and the signals and accessibility of the Big Apple Subway will be improved. This chain of investments will impact the reduction of travel times.
OHL, through its subsidiary Judlau Contracting, was awarded a contract to modernize and improve the accessibility of the New York Subway, for an amount of 149.3 million dollars, to install 17 new elevators in eight stations in five New York districts.
These are the 7th Avenue, Grand Street, Metropolitan Avenue-Lorimer Street stations, in Brooklyn; Beach 67th Street, in Queens; Dyckman Street, in Manhattan; East 149th, in the Bronx; and New Dorp, on Staten Island.
The contract also includes structural and excavation works to accommodate the new elevator installations, the improvement and updating of communications and electrical power systems, the relocation of existing public and transit services, and the reconstruction of borders. of platforms.
For now, the MTA has withdrawn some of the R-32 Metro cars known as Brightliners, the oldest in the world.
“It is truly bittersweet to say goodbye to a fleet of historic R-32 trains that have served New Yorkers for nearly six decades,” said New York City Transit Interim President Craig Cipriano.
“A lot of history goes with these trains and we’re delighted to have offered the chance to ride them one, or even a few, more times in their final days.”
The Philadelphia-built cars were called Brightliners for their washboard-look stainless steel exterior.
They debuted on the Q line on September 14, 1964, but in later years the R-32s were found on the A, C, J and Z lines.
Most were retired in the late 2000s.
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BY ISRAEL LOPEZ GUTIERREZ
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