New York governor blocks full shutdown of subway line for repairs
Source: Reuters
U.S. JANUARY 3, 2019 / 1:48 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
New York governor blocks full shutdown of subway line for repairs
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than two years after the announcement that one of New York City’s busiest subway lines would stop running between Manhattan and Brooklyn to allow for repairs, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that service would not be halted after all.
The expected closure of the L train tunnel under the East River for at least 15 months had dismayed residents of the Brooklyn communities of Williamsburg, Bushwick and beyond, who were bracing themselves for squeezing onto other already crowded lines or into promised new bus services. Some even moved out of their neighborhoods.
Cuomo told a news conference that engineering experts from Cornell and Columbia universities had looked at the plans over the last few weeks drawn up by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs the subway, and found them needlessly disruptive.
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Under the new plan, work would take place only on nights and weekends, with trains running on limited service through one of the two tubes inside the tunnel.
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