by vanshnookenraggen
What is the status of the Second Ave Line and East Side Long Island Railroad connection?
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vanshnookenraggen wrote:What is the status of the Second Ave Line and East Side Long Island Railroad connection?In a coma.
4 Express wrote:According to new plans, they were supposed to start digging in 2004, with the SAS (stations all planned out and finished) making its debut in 2015 or so. But I guess they still haven't started digging yet.7 Train wrote:SAS: not even off the drawing boardIt was in the 70/60's(?), but then the MTA's financial problems pulled into a halt.
vanshnookenraggen wrote:What is the status of the Second Ave Line and East Side Long Island Railroad connection?Apparently (most or all of the) funding for the SAS is included in the Transportation Bond Act, which will be up for a statewide vote on November 8th. If this referendum is turned down, the SAS project could be delayed for years, or even decades once again.