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#131 KevinKorell

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Posted 13 September 2019 - 07:08 PM

Here's one of those weekends where the L line will close totally in Manhattan and through much of Brooklyn.  From Daily News, New York, NY, 9/12/19:

 


 

An L-pocalypse of detours are coming for riders on the subway line

 

L-pocalypse alert this weekend! The L train is out in Manhattan and much of Brooklyn and will only run between Canarsie and Broadway Junction from 10:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.

 

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Posted 01 October 2019 - 11:09 AM

Curbed New York, 9/30/19
 

L train slowdown will end 3 months ahead of schedule

 

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for L train riders

 

 

The dreaded L train slowdown is ending early.

 

Work on the Hurricane Sandy-damaged Canarsie Tunnel is going so well that the MTA plans to wrap up its rehab work by April 2020, some three months ahead of schedule, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday during a tour of the East River tube.

 

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Posted 04 October 2019 - 04:52 PM

New York Post, 9/29/2019
 

Cuomo says L train repairs will wrap up months ahead of schedule

 

 

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

 

Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Sunday that repairs to the L train tube between Brooklyn and Manhattan will wrap up by April 2020 — months ahead of previous predictions.

 

“By the current plan, if we keep working seven days a week, and depriving their families of their presence, we will get it done by April.

 

That will be 12 months in totality,” Cuomo crowed as he trudged through the dank underground with a hoard of reporters to discuss the post-Hurricane Sandy rehab work.

 

“That will be 12 months in totality. Without any shutdown from an original design of 15 to 18 months of total shutdown.”

 

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