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Shutdown of L Train Service Has Been Averted
The dreaded 15-month shutdown of L train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan’s Midtown South won’t happen after all. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Thursday it had accepted the recommendations of a panel of engineering experts who determined that a complete shutdown isn’t necessary.
The panel said that repair work on a 1.5-mile East River tunnel, which sustained considerable damage in 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, could be completed on nights and weekends. A single tube will provide continued service in both directions during work periods.
Commercial and residential property owners and tenants had braced themselves for the impact of the shutdown, which was to have begun this coming spring.
“The L Train Tunnel project gives us the opportunity to integrate technologies and methods that have never been used before in a tunnel rehabilitation project,” the engineering experts said in a joint statement.
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