NYC’s Second Avenue Subway Risks Delay Without Congestion Toll
- Second Avenue expansion relies on congestion pricing revenue
- Extension expected to limit wait times, reduce crowding
Commuters arrive at the newly opened 96th Street station on the Second Avenue subway line in New York.
Photographer: John Taggart/BloombergA long-awaited $7 billion plan to extend New York City’s Second Avenue Subway to Harlem needs congestion pricing revenue to avoid being sidelined.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s transit system and is also implementing congestion pricing, on Monday awarded a $182 million contract to relocate underground utilities and make way for future construction work to link the Q subway line from 96th Street on the Upper East Side to 125th Street in Harlem. But to sign off on those tunneling and excavation agreements, the MTA needs to resolve legal challenges against congestion pricing, Jamie Torres-Springer, head of the MTA’s construction and development, told reporters during a media briefing Monday.