The Metropolitan Transportation Authority spent nearly twice as much on consultants for the Second Avenue Subway as it did to actually dig the tunnel from 63rd to 96th streets, a damning new assess…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority spent nearly twice as much on consultants for the Second Avenue Subway as it did to actually dig the tunnel from 63rd to 96th streets, a damning new assessment revealed Monday.
“Other places in the world – in Madrid, in four years, they built 80 miles of subway,” said Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of the report. “We’ve built just a mile.“We’re doing dramatically less and spending dramatically more, so future projects are in peril,” he added. “With Phase 2 [of the Second Avenue Subway], they’re still trying to get all the funding together.”
European transit agencies perform the bulk of their project design, engineering and construction management with white-collar agency staff instead of relying on outside entities. And when they hire outside firms, they keep them on a short leash. In New York, the MTA has further embraced outside firms as it tries to better control costs. The new system, known as design-build, puts one company in charge of designing, engineering and building the project.
The 7-train extension to Hudson Yards cost $2.4 billion and officials abandoned plans to build a station at 42The $4.5 billion Second Avenue Subway’s first phase through the Upper East Side was even more expensive on a per mile basis. Each of the three new stations have platforms that are roughly 600 feet long, but contractors dug out twice as much space at the 86th and 96th Street stations to fit the station mechanicals, provide staff changing rooms and office space.
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