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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

FEATURE TRAN S' I T

Extra Effort Speeds Repair of Train Systems Money and commitment expedite o o. push for speedy service restoration he terrorist attack that destroyed $4.55 billion and .$7.5 billion of extensive Construction Corp., College Point, N.Y. tire World Trade Center’s subway downtown transit improvements. The Although the contract .scope was an evol­ station on the 1/9 line and shut centerpiece is a hub that will provide a ving concept, the task at hand wa.s fairly Port Authority Trans-Hudson com­ single point for travelers at the tip of Man­ straightforward: restore 1/9 service as muter train .service from New Jersey ex­ hattan to access ferry, commuter rail and quickly as possible. acted a terrible price in death and de­ subway service (ENR 8/19 p. 10). That The attack closed three stations: Cort­ struction. It also provided a rare op­ project “will be .sort of like a new Grand land St., within the World Trade Center; portunity for New York City to reconfig­ Central Terminal downtown,” says Mys­ Rector St., a few blocks south of Ground ure a key hub in its transportation net­ ore 1.. Nagaraja, MTA chief engineer. Zero; and South Ferry, which provides work. Working 24-7 since last September MTA designers working on the pre- access to the Staten f.sland Ferry Termi­ nal at the southern tip of Manhattan. “We had 1,800 ft of subway line completely de­ stroyed,” says Nagaraja. MTA’s in-house t. engineers, with assistance from New York City-based consulting engineers Parsons Tunnel Brinckerhoff Inc., quickly decided to lea,ve the Cortland station closed until a replacement could be integrated into Lower Manhattan Development Corp. site reconstruction plans. The most expeditious plan meant re- 5 constructing the track “exactly a.s it was g _J Intsrmodat zone and transit center (future) upon completion in 1918, with the .same a Busline alignment,” says Nagaraja. | ■ South Ferry Terminal and station (future) The in-hou.se estimate for restoring 5 track, adding signal equipment and re- o sr MW habilitating and reopening the Rector g PIT# WBK Project includes two terminals and Hudson River tunnels. St, .station was about $200 million. But 8

11, two New York-area transit agencies liminary design for that and their contractors are pushing to project expect to have restore and interconnect key transporta­ plans ready for public tion links near Ground Zero. review near year’s end, The Metropolitan Transit Authority but few believe that the will resume full 1/9 subway service Sept. 15, a month ahead of schedule, with the joint venture repair contractor earning a $3-million bonus. With its own contrac­ terminal will be in oper­ ation before 2008, at the earliest. PATH train and sub­ I tors proceeding on schedule, PATH way service restoration I trains will be running again by the end of are moving on a much 2003, officials .say. Those two jobs began faster track. “We’re done early this year with Ground Zero site on the 1 and 9,” say.s clearance and account for nearly $700 Peter Tully, president of million of transit-related cleanup, rehab Tully Construction. Last 8 construction and system improvements. winter MTA hired the K The work is really an intermediate fix Flushing, N.Y.-based that will establish the foundation for a contractor in joint ven­ more ambitious undertaking, between ture with A.J. Pegno STIIWEO PATH tunnels get new conduit and tPMk.

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