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Published May 30, 2010
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Last week on The Rachel Maddow SHOWwas "Geek Week," which featured Maddow interviewing Nobel Prize-winning Energy Secretary Steven Chu, visiting Ground Zero, and checking out the Iwo Jima helicopter carrier (which is here for Fleet Week). On Friday, she headed to the Second Avenue Subway launch box at 96th Street, noting the many starts and stops of the future "T" line and how it's desperately needed, pointing out the crowded Lexington Avenue line carries more people than the Boston, Chicago and D.C. subways combined each day.
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While the construction is disruptive to residents and business owners on Second Avenue, using the massive tunnel boring machine 70-90 feet under street level is less disruptive than the previous practice of "cut-and-cover." And we visited the Second Avenue Subway launch box two weeks ago—we've included some of those photos above.
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