The 7 line — to so-called subway to nowhere — is set to cost the city of New York $2.1 billion for one additional stop and perhaps the shell of a second. On Monday, the costs are going to go up by a bit when the board approves a $10 million increase in design costs. While the cost of this early work has already tripled to $124 million from its original estimated price tag a few years ago, the MTA is still on the hook for $0, and the Mayor’s Office has built the overruns into its budget for the project. “It’s not out of the ordinary, it’s covered and this will cost the MTA $0,” Andrew Brent, a Bloomberg administration spokesman, said to amNY’s Urbanite blog. Now if only they could solve that problem of the omitted stop at 41st St. and 10th Ave.
City set to cover more 7 extension cost overruns
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The obvious solution to 41/10 is to fit it out first, and then if the money runs out, kill the Javits station instead.
[…] Bloomberg Administration, the picture is even more muddled. On the one hand, the city has invested $2.1 billion of its own money to extend the 7 line to the far west side of Manhattan, a serious investment in making these new […]