Why the Constant F Train Subway Disruptions at Roosevelt Island
A reader of this post asks a very good question.
A bronze plaque should go to whomever is able to get the MTA to state when the weekend shutdowns will end permanently. Every other capital project of the MTA's has a start and an end date. Except, it seems, this one. And what is the tunnel work for? The LIRR East Side connection? Tunnel reinforcement to protect agains terrorism? I'd love to know.Long time Roosevelt Island residents know that work repairing the Roosevelt Island Station and train service is nothing new as evident from this 1998 NY Times article.
Only eight years after it opened, the 63d Street subway tunnel will be partially shut Sunday for repairs that will last 15 months, causing extra transfers and long waits for approximately 12,000 riders daily in Manhattan, Roosevelt Island and Queens, New York City Transit announced yesterday.Does anyone know the answer to what the tunnel work is seeking to accomplish?
... The need for a $44 million repair job -- workers will tear up the track, lay new cushioning pads and anchors and replace the track -- was first made public in 1995, only six years after the tunnel project was completed at a cost of $868 million. But the advance warning did not make the inconvenience go down much easier.
... The 3.2-mile-long tunnel was built using an innovative but flawed design that called for laying the rails in shallow epoxy-and-sand pads instead of atop conventional railroad ties. The design allowed for a slightly smaller tunnel, but the pads began to crack soon after the tunnel opened.
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I would add a corrolary question to this: givent hat the extra escalators have ben shut down, why is the up escalator at one of the levels always shut down - at least during the day? Someone is going to have a heart attack one of these days. . . .and they can't say to take the elevator, because they don't post signs about it, so by the time you find out, you've already come up one or two levels.
Good point. that happened to me last evening (not the heart attack) but the lower level up escalator was out of service and I am just waiting to see if the elevator is working tonight.
Here is earlier post on topic with on point video.
http://rooseveltislander.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-constant-f-train-subway-disruptions.html
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