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The long, long-awaited Fulton Transit Center will be completed in 2014. Well, that's what the MTA thinks—though MTA Chairman Dale Hemmerdinger claims MTA construction chief Michael Horodniceanu "has, at least to me, signed it in blood." Why in blood? Because the project is seven years late.
The plans for the Fulton Transit Center, which would provide connections for the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, E, J, M, Z, R and W subway lines, were first unveiled in 2004, but last year, the MTA said construction costs escalated. Then some federal money helped breach a gap in the budget. The NY Times reports that Horodniceanu vowed, "I expect to deliver that with the exact dates that you have." And the glass dome—the oculus—at top will be four-stories tall.
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That's 7 "MTA" years.
Exactly!
It will not be built in our lifetime. The MTA takes 5 years just to install an escalator (which incidently breaks down months later and is never repaired).
At least something resembling the original can be put up here (hopefully) rather than the stumps one block over.
Not.Gonna.Happen.
how many dirty stinkin apes does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Construction costs have escalated! Hire the fucking Chinese to build this shit already. Christ almighty how much more graft and corruption will it take?
Unbelievable. With all the MTA's money woes and threatened service cutbacks they're still clinging...to this? It looks like a mosque at a Marriott in Mecca. Total architectural, financial, and civic embarassment.
Getting between all those lines easily will be a big help for people trying to make connections. As Fulton Street is now, you are better off exiting the subway, walking to another entrance, reswiping your card and getting to another train that way, if you have an unlimited ride card.
But I'm also sceptical that the money won't dry up, and even if it doesn't I read "2014" as "2024".