NYC Transit to Let Bids Soon for Post-Sandy Reconstruction Work on 2 Tunnels
New York City Transit plans to issue formal bid documents the week of June 10 for major reconstruction work on two subway tunnels that Superstorm Sandy heavily damaged. Prime contractors are expected to be selected in July with work set to start later this summer, the agency says.
Both tunnels—the 5,000-ft-long Montague and the 1,200-ft-long Greenpoint tubes—sustained ceiling-high floodwaters that "corroded, degraded or ruined almost everything from tracks and switches, to signals and controls, to power and communications cables," the agency said in a June 5 statement.