Travel around here is "as convenient as it could be?" What are you smoking? You know what would make travel easier: A combined Metro-North and LIRR railroad, with a fare partnership agreement with NJ Transit. One seat rides from LI to NJ and CT to LI are what will ease congestion in the city. Trains that end in the city just use up track capacity.
ESA is a great start, but there is a lot left to go.
I am an electrical engineer working on this project (embedded conduits and power). I have worked on almost all areas of the project from the tail tracks in Manhattan to the reception pits in Queens . I can't wait to ride this railway whenever the construction is completed.
Well, it has been a year, since this video was made. I wonder what the status of the construction project here is like right now. Just like the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway, this East Side Access project is supposed to be completed in late 2016. I hope that that date is true.
Once the TBM's are done boring holes for East Side Access, can they be reused for the 2nd Avenue Subway? I know they just lowered a recycled TBM to start boring the tunnels for that line but to speed up the process, why not reuse these TBM's?
"Fast forward 3 1/2 decades." You gotta love it! This project was originally planned almost 20 years ago, and it is running about 10-12 years behind schedule. The 2nd Avenue Subway has been on the drawing boards since the 1930s.
Nowadays all these projects take longer - here in Britain too. One slight difference here is that apart from London's CrossRail all the British projects involve existing railways, and boy oh boy, the planners certainly know how to inconvenience the travelling public (too many line closures for far too long).
Maybe its because in 'the old days' more people were employed to get the job done more quickly.
New Jersey Transit has a number of expansion plans which involve existing railroad lines (MOM, Susie Q, Lackawanna Cutoff, West Trenton branch) and has gotten nowhere in advancing them. It took them 20 years to build the Montclair Connection (2002) and the Kearny Connection, opened in 1996, was first proposed in 1971.
@TheLastBrainLeft - and that joker Gov. Christie pulled funding for the new Hudson River Tunnel. Yet - New Jersey gives subsidies to many many companies to stay there. He's a big hypocrite. That added rail tunnel would provide jobs for ppl in New Jersey ... and probably more in the long run than the subsidies. I guess since it would benefit NY also he decided to pull the plug. Talk about "penny-wise and pound foolish". The tri-state is intertwined.. why can't politicians see that??
they are doing the same thing everywhere else is, taking longer to get paid more. im sure they could do the job in less than 6yrs. it only took 3 to do the chunnel. it took SEPTA 6yrs to rebuild 8 blocks of elevated track in Philly. anywhere else it would have been done in 16 months.
2016 lol. More like 3016.
cw99900a 2 months ago
This sure is a lot of work
MrMaster767 7 months ago
Travel around here is "as convenient as it could be?" What are you smoking? You know what would make travel easier: A combined Metro-North and LIRR railroad, with a fare partnership agreement with NJ Transit. One seat rides from LI to NJ and CT to LI are what will ease congestion in the city. Trains that end in the city just use up track capacity.
ESA is a great start, but there is a lot left to go.
marfriedrichs 7 months ago
Much info on this work is found in Trains Magazine (Kalmbach) edition for August 2001, pages 18-19.
pix999 7 months ago
I am an electrical engineer working on this project (embedded conduits and power). I have worked on almost all areas of the project from the tail tracks in Manhattan to the reception pits in Queens . I can't wait to ride this railway whenever the construction is completed.
gtssage 11 months ago
Well, it has been a year, since this video was made. I wonder what the status of the construction project here is like right now. Just like the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway, this East Side Access project is supposed to be completed in late 2016. I hope that that date is true.
nyclover2000 1 year ago
Once the TBM's are done boring holes for East Side Access, can they be reused for the 2nd Avenue Subway? I know they just lowered a recycled TBM to start boring the tunnels for that line but to speed up the process, why not reuse these TBM's?
scrat437 1 year ago
"Fast forward 3 1/2 decades." You gotta love it! This project was originally planned almost 20 years ago, and it is running about 10-12 years behind schedule. The 2nd Avenue Subway has been on the drawing boards since the 1930s.
Napoleon6a 2 years ago
Nowadays all these projects take longer - here in Britain too. One slight difference here is that apart from London's CrossRail all the British projects involve existing railways, and boy oh boy, the planners certainly know how to inconvenience the travelling public (too many line closures for far too long).
Maybe its because in 'the old days' more people were employed to get the job done more quickly.
Simon
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
New Jersey Transit has a number of expansion plans which involve existing railroad lines (MOM, Susie Q, Lackawanna Cutoff, West Trenton branch) and has gotten nowhere in advancing them. It took them 20 years to build the Montclair Connection (2002) and the Kearny Connection, opened in 1996, was first proposed in 1971.
TheLastBrainLeft 2 years ago
@TheLastBrainLeft - and that joker Gov. Christie pulled funding for the new Hudson River Tunnel. Yet - New Jersey gives subsidies to many many companies to stay there. He's a big hypocrite. That added rail tunnel would provide jobs for ppl in New Jersey ... and probably more in the long run than the subsidies. I guess since it would benefit NY also he decided to pull the plug. Talk about "penny-wise and pound foolish". The tri-state is intertwined.. why can't politicians see that??
Amidat 9 months ago
@citytransportinfo - yeah that's what happens in "mature" economies. if it's an "up and coming" place - things happen quickly. That's how it goes.
Amidat 9 months ago
they are doing the same thing everywhere else is, taking longer to get paid more. im sure they could do the job in less than 6yrs. it only took 3 to do the chunnel. it took SEPTA 6yrs to rebuild 8 blocks of elevated track in Philly. anywhere else it would have been done in 16 months.
howardkevinm 2 years ago