Crews with Judlau Contracting in joint venture with TC Electric on April 26 completed—at least three months early—a $477-million contract to rehabilitate the Superstorm Sandy-damaged Canarsie Tunnel carrying the L subway line between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The work, begun in April last year, incorporated key ideas from academia, including fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) and new cabling.
The original plan by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) had been to shut down the heavily-used L line for 18 months starting in April 2019, but four months earlier, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) officially scrapped that plan and called on engineering professors from Columbia University and Cornell University to brainstorm an alternative.