DEP Invoice or Financial Record, September 30, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

1 J , , Subway at Trade Center to Take Years to Rebuild

Wb New York City Transit I-be^s and rubble cover the tracks of the 1 and 9 line in Lower Manhattan. A mile of tunnel needs rebuilding.

4 By RANDY KENNEDY that has been pledged to the city in collapsed, in two separate locations, New York City Transit officials the wake of the attack on the World but subway engineers who have ex­ have determined that damage to the ' Trade Center. plored the tunnels say that hundreds No. 1 and 9 subway tunnels and sta­ The only guide to what the project more feet are structuredly unsound, tions in Lower Manhattan is so ex­ might cost comes from rough esti- with thick I-beams bent like paper tensive that the line will need to be mates for the long-planned Second clips and ceilings sagging under the completely rebuilt for more them a Avenue subway, which planners weight of millions of tons of debris j mile. think would cost about $1 billion a from the World Trade Center on the The work on the line, from just mile. But that is for building a new street above. south of Chambers Street all the way line from scratch and carving its In several places, individual to the end, at the South Ferry station, tunnels deep beneath the streets. A beams from the trade center weigh- could take more than two years, rebuilt section of the 1 and 9 line mg tons punched through the street, transit officials said this week, add­ would most likely follow the tunnel through about seven feet of earthand ing that they could not speculate cavity that already exists and would through the concrete-and-brick tun­ beyond that. They also declined to cost less. nel ceiling, and then kept on going estimate the cost because they did About 575 feet of the line is totally into the tunnel floor, where they re­ not want city, state and federal offi­ main lodged like spears. cials to hold them to an amount that “There is so much damage that it could turn out to be insufficient. does not make any sense to rebuild it Transit officials say they expect in sections,” said MysoreTSi^agar- money to rebuild the subway to come from the $20 billion in federal aid Continued on Page B9

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