Second Avenue Subway Work To Begin In March

Unbelievable:

Digging for the Second Avenue subway will start in March, Mysore Nagaraja, president of Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Construction, said yesterday.

Major work will occur between East 96th and East 92nd streets, where a hole will be dug to get the tunnel-boring machine underground. Some utility infrastructure will also be relocated.

The first phase of the $3.83 billion project to create a new Lexington Avenue line from 96th Street to 63rd Street will also come in under budget.

The MTA budgeted $350 million for initial tunneling, but the agency’s contractor said it can do it for $337 million.

The project is expected to be completed in 2013.