Queens 7-train riders will have to endure another five months of detours and closures after station repairs were expanded \u2014 as the project\u2019s price tag soared to $254 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The repairs are now expected to finish in March of next year rather than Oct. 20 \u2014 nearly five months later than previously planned \u2014 with new work adding $2.8 million to the massive project that originally was anticipated to cost $217 million, according to MTA documents.<\/p>\n
Rail inspectors found 22 more deteriorated sections of the steel beams supporting the Flushing-bound platforms at the 52nd Street and 69th Street stations, the MTA documents said.<\/p>\n
Queens 7 train riders face a longer wait for station repairs to wrap up \u2014 and taxpayers face another $2.8 million bill after the MTA discovered its original plans didn\u2019t account for all the necessary repair work. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the MTA said crews can\u2019t always tell how badly steel has deteriorated until workers open up the structure during construction.<\/p>\n
Earlier changes to the project had already added $34.5 million to the repair contract\u2019s original $217 million price tag. The latest increase would bring the project\u2019s repair bill to $254.4 million \u2014 about 17% above the original price tag.<\/p>\n
MTA documents said those changes were in part because of \u201cthe direct costs of resequencing the work and ten months of impact costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier changes to the project had already added $34.5 million to the repair contract\u2019s original $217 million price tag. VWPics\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Riders have already been taking detours with Flushing-bound trains skipping both stations since May. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Riders will have to stick with the detours they\u2019ve faced since May, with Flushing-bound trains now skipping both stations until January.<\/p>\n
Passengers heading to either stop must ride past the stop, switch to a Manhattan-bound train and double back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those passengers leaving the stations toward Flushing must first travel toward Manhattan before switching directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens 7-train riders will have to endure another five months of detours and closures after station repairs were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10519,57,141,9,56,63,65,64,122,58],"class_list":["post-390738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-7-train","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}