Comments on: SAS utilities work forces UES street closures http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/01/14/sas-utilities-work-forces-ues-street-closures/ A New York City Subway Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:57:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Josh K http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/01/14/sas-utilities-work-forces-ues-street-closures/#comment-69940 Josh K Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:32:46 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=4797#comment-69940 From reading the SAS project website, this street closure is so that a major sewer junction can be relocated out of the the way of the new subway. A side benefit that I don't think has really been mentioned about the SAS is that much of 2nd Ave. will now have new and modern utilities buried beneath the street. This will increase utility reliability for the whole neighborhood. On too many projects that I've either seen or been a part of, there isn't enough cooperation between utility companies. One will come along, tear up the street, do what they need to do and repave. Then a few weeks later, another will come along and tear everything up. Most people notice this inefficiency, but for most of these utilities, there isn't much they can do about it or aren't willing to try. The SAS project has had the benefit of providing an exert an outside force that has made the utilities make upgrades all at once, thus limiting the long term disruption to the area. From reading the SAS project website, this street closure is so that a major sewer junction can be relocated out of the the way of the new subway.

A side benefit that I don’t think has really been mentioned about the SAS is that much of 2nd Ave. will now have new and modern utilities buried beneath the street. This will increase utility reliability for the whole neighborhood.

On too many projects that I’ve either seen or been a part of, there isn’t enough cooperation between utility companies. One will come along, tear up the street, do what they need to do and repave. Then a few weeks later, another will come along and tear everything up. Most people notice this inefficiency, but for most of these utilities, there isn’t much they can do about it or aren’t willing to try.

The SAS project has had the benefit of providing an exert an outside force that has made the utilities make upgrades all at once, thus limiting the long term disruption to the area.

]]> By: Andrew http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/01/14/sas-utilities-work-forces-ues-street-closures/#comment-69873 Andrew Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:33:32 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=4797#comment-69873 I thought the exit was at 97th, not at 95th. But 96th is better for high volumes of through traffic anyway. I thought the exit was at 97th, not at 95th. But 96th is better for high volumes of through traffic anyway.

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