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The MTA’s Second Avenue Subway project is getting a second life.
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Federal stimulus payments to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) are paying off in terms of the chance for the completion of the Second Avenue Subway project in East Harlem.
The global pandemic sent transit agencies into a financial tailspin last year, and almost scratched work on the project that would extend the Q line to 125
th Street.
However, now that MTA’s budget has been rescued by more emergency federal funds the Second Avenue Subway project is back on, and it could get another boost if President Biden’s infrastructure bill is passed by Congress.
The rise of London and New York City as major global cities can be traced in part to investment in high quality transport networks, as we described in Part 1, which helped enable each city and its region to grow both organically, and in its competitive position compared to other city regions. There was another parallel between the two cities – the inter-relationship between the two cities’ public transport operations which started with Americans (and other directors with North American perspectives) – like Yerkes and Ashfield – being involved in London’s transport in the first half of the 20th Century.
The post-WWII disinvestment in urban transport, along with other strategies such as planning and density policies, however, encouraged suburban development and relocation to other regions, to the detriment of the classic city cores and the underlying basis for funding public transportation. However, this situation started to change again in the 1980s.