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UPDATE: The 7 Line Extension Is Delayed
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Mar 24, 2015
Modified Mar 24, 2015
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Published Mar 24, 2015
Modified Mar 24, 2015
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With the MTA struggling to get the regular trains to stop taking naps underground, it should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that some of the flashier projects are getting pushed back. Like, for instance, the 7 Line Extension—turns out erstwhile Mayor Bloomberg's favorite new train probably won't be ready until at least the summer.
The extension, which will stretch the 7 line all the way to 34th Street and 11th Avenue, was supposed to wrap up at the end of 2013, then got pushed back to February of this year, then got pushed back again to some mysterious spring month that the MTA had the good sense not to name explicitly. Now, though, the authority says the $2.4 billion end station may not open until the summer. Maybe. Who knows. 11th Avenue is lame.
According to media reports, most of the construction on the station is complete, but technical problems and other setbacks are keeping it from us. Not that the MTA isn't optimistic! "Our goal remains to open the extension for revenue service by the end of the second quarter, but it appears increasingly likely that it will instead open in the third quarter," MTA spokesperson Adam Lisberg said in a statement.
So, no extended 7 line next month, not that there's ever much of a regular 7 train anyway.
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