New York, NY – New York City residents are inundated with the never-ending construction that is causing heavy traffic, high costs and impatient drivers.
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Reconstruction on Houston St. is three years behind schedule. The construction running from West St. to FDR Drive started in the summer of 2005 and isn’t projected to be complete until the winter of 2016, reports the New York Post (http://bit.ly/1FkjNxP).
The project, from West Street to the FDR Drive, began in the summer of 2005 and now won’t finish until the winter of 2016.
The project has grown from $60 million to $88 million, and is made up of two Department of Design and Construction projects that range from repaving to full reconstruction of sidewalks, water pipes and roads.
One resident of the Lower East Side said the noise from horns honking all night and the jackhammering is intrusive and a “constant cause of misery.”
Officials say the job is challenging because utilities have to be moved for construction work and can only work on a handful of blocks at a time.
Other construction projects that are behind schedule are the renovations to the Brooklyn Bridge, which were pushed back from a 2013 finish date to a 2015 date; the $35 million dollar reconstruction of Chambers Street, which has been ongoing since 2010 and isn’t slated for completion until 2015, two years behind schedule; and the project on the Staten Island Expressway, which is expected to finish in the spring of 2015.
The $295 million overhaul in Hell’s Kitchen and Midtown is expected to be completed in 2017.
And the Times and Duffy Square Reconstruction that started in April 2013 won’t be complete for at least another two years.
Lot’s of waste and poor quality of life. Welcome to expensive trashhole New York.
Nothing to do with graft, incompetence, nepotism, and greed. Nothing at all.
The BQE approach to the Gowanus and the Prospect Expressway has been under construction, no joke, since the late 1970’s when I was in high school.
For the next two weeks the powers at the MTA have cut subway service on the Q and B lines causing tremendous delays and congestion. Yet another reason to restore Express Bus service to the heimshe olam of Flatbush.
#3 you are so right. i have told people that if you get assigned to that highway you can do a full ifetime of employment there and retire before it will be completed. what a mockery of the system and a rip off to the tax payers