The proposed 14-mile “Interborough Express,” or IBX, would connect to 17 subway lines.
The boondoggle-prone MTA may take a “light”-er touch for its next big megaproject — after Gov. Hochul and transit officials on Tuesday said the authority will begin plans for a $5.5 billion “light rail” transit line from Bay Ridge to Jackson Heights.along an existing freight route
The MTA opted for light rail because its “smaller, more flexible vehicles” allow its planners to route trains onto the street instead of through a tunnel underneath the cemetery that is currently not wide enough to accommodate the project, officials said. “The bottom line is it was judged to be superior in terms of capacity, speed and engineering viability — principally because the size of a heavy rail vehicle could not be accommodated in some of the existing pathways and you’d have to build a whole new tunnel, including a whole new tunnel under a cemetery,” MTA CEO Janno Lieber told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
“We’re showing a very, very moderate cost per average daily rider especially compared to other systems that have been built out across the country,” Torres-Springer said. “Conventional rail just would be difficult, if not impossible.”The route would serve over 100,000 daily riders, the MTA said.Transit ridership has recovered faster in the outer boroughs since COVID than it has in Manhattan — reversing pre-pandemic trends, according to MTA figures.
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