May 26, 2012
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    By Theresa Juva

    MTA completes first Second Avenue subway tunnel

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    Photo credit: RJ Mickelson

    Transit officials Monday announced that digging of one of the tunnels for the Second Avenue Subway has been completed and that the boring machine will start plowing away on a second tunnel for the project this spring.

     

    Here are some big numbers about the dig:

    • 7,612:  Number of feet mined to complete digging of first tunnel.
     

    • 485: Number of tons the boring machine weighs.
     

    • 450: Length in feet of the machine.
     

    • 2016: Estimated completion year of the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway project.
     

    • $4.4 billion: Cost of completion of the first phase, which would create three new stations on Second Avenue at 96th, 86th and 72nd Streets.
     

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