Workers digging the foundation completed by mining on Thursday a new New York City Subway tunnel that officials hope will help revive the business on the west side of town.City and transit officials watched as workers used a massive tunnel-boring machine to cut through a wall of rock 40 feet below ground, connecting the new tunnel at the end of one year and older.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the subway extension, the growth in the far west side of town to encourage.
“It will be that part of town with new businesses and homes and parks and open spaces and most important, especially now revive, jobs,” said Bloomberg. The city spent $ 2,100,000,000 dollars for the project.
The metro now ends at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue and 34th Street and extends to 11th Avenue near the site of a 26-acre property along Hudson waterfront of the city.
Plans for expansion of the subway was originally scheduled for half subway station at 41st St. and 10th Ave. But it was postponed because the cost of the project was still too high. Bloomberg said he wants the state and federal governments to pay for the extra subway station.
Bloomberg has tried to develop the area for years. In 2004 he proposed a cluster of buildings near the Hudson River commercial skyscraper and an adjacent 75,000 seat stadium that would be used for the New York Jets and the 2012 Olympic Games as the city’s bid for the event, the host is not. Although the stadium is demolished, the development progresses.
But on Thursday, Bloomberg was happy the subway station is on schedule to open near the property, called Hudson Yards in 2013.
“This is the golden coast of New York,” he said. “This is a great spot in Manhattan that is not developed.”
Just after 4 hours on Thursday, the ground shook and the tunnel boring machine rumbled louder and louder as the stones fell on the floor of the space under the Port Authority bus terminal. After a few minutes, dust filled the air and the rest of the rocks fell like blades of the machine spun in a circular motion, with a 22-meter-wide round hole.
Once finished, construction workers cheered as their colleagues crawled through a small opening at the bottom of the tunnel.
“It’s amazing. This is the first piece I worked on that I could see after it was finished,” said Mark Litz, 28, a shift engineer in Bellwood, Pa., after he crawled through the drill. “I am glad that I have done.”
source:bloomberg
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