Once the MTA starts work on the Culver viaduct rehabilitation plan, the F/G station at Smith-9th Sts. that serves Carroll Garden, Gowanus and Red Hook will be shuttered for a year. Metro guesses that the 12-month closure will take place in 2010. [Metro via The Gowanus Lounge]
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Board approves 7 line extension
The MTA voted today to approve the 7 line extension. Only Andrew Saul, also the lone dissenter on the MTA’s finance committee, voted against the one-bid contract, and MTA CEO Elliot Sander said the board would take up the issue of cost over-runs in two years. [Cityroom]
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NY Senate OK’s Hemmerdinger
Despite concers that H. Dale Hemmerdinger only knows about transit in New York because he reads the newspapers, the New York State Senate confirmed the Gov. Spitzer appointee as the new Chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Say good bye to Peter Kalikow. [Daily News]