February 27, 2020
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MTA Announces 2020-24 Capital Program Projects Scheduled for Award in 2020MTA Construction & Development Leveraging Construction Bundling to Deliver Major Projects Faster, Better and More Cost Effectively
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Editors: Material below offers additional details following a presentation made at the MTA Board meeting yesterday, Feb. 26, 2020. Work was awarded in January to install a modern computer-based signaling system on the Eighth Avenue line, which serves hundreds of thousands of customers and connects Manhattan’s West side with Brooklyn and various subway lines that interface with nearly every subway line throughout the system. This signal work is primarily funded in the 2015-2019 Capital Program. The 2020-2024 Capital Program includes funding for additional infrastructure improvements along this corridor that will be coordinated with the signal upgrades to further improve service reliability. MTA will award contracts this year for full ADA accessibility at 25 stations throughout the network. That includes five stations in the Bronx, including one Metro-North station, six stations in Brooklyn, four stations in Manhattan, seven stations in Queens, including two Long Island Rail Road stations, and three stations on Staten Island. Lieber also announced updates and progress on other 2015-2019 projects, including a new connection for Metro-North to Penn Station, a project known as Penn Station Access. “We are jump-starting these projects and moving forward aggressively,” said MTA President of Construction and Development Janno Lieber. “This is all in keeping with our commitment to schedule work strategically, and keep our customers and stakeholders up to speed about our progress.” The 2020-2024 Capital Program, approved on January 2, invests $54.8 billion into the region’s subways, buses, railroads and the authority’s nine vehicular bridges and tunnels over the next five years to institutionalize and build on the progress of the Subway Action Plan and create a faster, more accessible, and more reliable public transportation system. This historic plan – which represents the largest amount of investment in MTA history – includes more than $40 billion in New York City Transit’s subways and buses including crucial signal upgrades on six-line segments and expanding accessibility in the subway and Staten Island Railway systems. A detailed project list is available here in PDF format, and here in Excel format. Major commitments scheduled for 2020, out of both the 2020-2024 Capital Program and prior programs, include: 2020 First Quarter: $2.4 billion
2020 Second Quarter: $2.8 billion
2020 Third Quarter: $4.0 billion
2020 Fourth Quarter: $4.3 billion
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