Transit Construction Progress Report Part 1 (1973)

From the New York Transit Museum archives, a 1973 film on construction projects at the MTA.
Part one features the building of the 63 St Tunnel and its connections to the Broadway and Sixth Avenue subway lines beneath Central Park. This double-level tunnel is currently used by the F subway line and will also allow LIRR trains to serve Grand Central Terminal when the East Side Access project is completed.

[@stuartlee6622]

My family's Horn Construction Company built this project, running a joint venture, "Central Park Constructors"

[@billlu9468]

IMO, while my comment doesn't pertain to the MTA per se, I think what Central Park is to Manhattan, the Summer Palace is to Beijing. Speaking of Beijing, their equivalent of the MTA, what they call the di-tie (in Anglicized phonics) has at least 1.5x the riders of the MTA. Sorry, MTA, Beijing is now more than double the population of NYC, so it's to be expected that their di-tie has more riders than the MTA.

[@matthewleon7300]

in July 1971, subway construction was cheap

[@kennethkresowaty2795]

Too bad subway construction is too expensive!

[@TheRailLeaguer]

And badly managed to that end.

[@kennethkresowaty2795]

@@TheRailLeaguer Still is badly managed ie the attempt to change NYC bus routes

[@TheRailLeaguer]

Kenneth Kresowaty The whole bus redesign could’ve been done better in my own opinion. I’ve personally seen what the draft looks like for Queens and I’m not pretty happy with it. I’m afraid of what might happen to Brooklyn.

[@jayt5259]

If the mta was cheap and the metropolitan metro north is as cheep I would ride it