The largest Capital Investment Grant in the history of the Federal Transit Administration’s program will feature three new ADA-accessible stops will be built at 106th, 116th, and 125th Streets with about 300,000 daily riders totaling Phase 1 and Phase 2.
The infrastructure bill that passed is delivering long promised funding to the next phase of the Second Avenue Subway in Upper Manhattan. When the line is finally completed, new subway stations will be opened at East Harlem at 106th and 116th StreetsPhase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway is one step closer to getting started after U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg approved $3.4 billion dollars in federal funding.
It's the largest Capital Investment Grant in the history of the Federal Transit Administration’s program. "We are in one of the most storied, one of the most important, one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world which is finally going to get the transit and opportunity it deserves," Buttigieg said."For New Yorkers, transit is like air and water," MTA CEO Janno Lieber said. "We need it to survive."
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