{"id":2860,"date":"2007-10-20T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/a_riddle_wrapped_in_a_mystery_inside_a_shell.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:04:48","slug":"a_riddle_wrappe_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/a_riddle_wrappe_1.html","title":{"rendered":"A Riddle, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside A Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How could a subway extension project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/for_21_billion.html\">only one stop<\/a> be cut back any further? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10202007\/news\/regionalnews\/mta__its_westward_ho_ld_on_a_e.htm\">It&#8217;s possible<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The MTA and the city are moving ahead with a planned extension of the No. 7 subway line to the Javits Convention Center, but much of the original project may be scrapped to stay on budget, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is expected next week to approve a $1.1 billion contract to dig the extension from Times Square west to 11th Avenue, then downtown to a terminal at 34th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will plans for a stop at 41st Street and 11th Avenue be eliminated, but the MTA may not even build a planned shell for a future station.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the MTA wouldn&#8217;t spend $2.1 billion to add a single station, but the city is footing the bill as part of its development of the West Side rail yards.<\/p>\n<p>There is an option to build the station shell for $500 million more, but the MTA would be responsible for overruns and doesn&#8217;t have the money. Transit advocates called the decision to possibly eliminate the station a grave error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real irony is that there are many more homes and businesses near the 10th Avenue station than near the Javits station,&#8221; said MTA board member Andrew Albert. &#8220;The bottom line is this is going to cost us a lot more later.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could a subway extension project with only one stop be cut back any further? It&#8217;s possible: The MTA and the city are moving ahead with a planned extension of the No. 7 subway line to the Javits Convention Center, but much of the original project may be scrapped to stay on budget, officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}