Biden budget proposal includes $400M for Second Avenue subway project

President Biden’s proposed finances contains $400 million in funding for the following section of the Second Avenue subway, the White Home stated Monday.

The cash, which should be permitted by Congress, would go towards engineering and planning for the mission and provides the MTA the chance to use for extra funding sooner or later.

The $6.9 billion subway extension would add stops at 106th Road, 116th Road and a hundred and twenty fifth Road by using 16 blocks of current tunnels constructed within the earlier century. Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged in November to get the hassle underway in some unspecified time in the future this 12 months.

The Biden administration's budge proposal includes $400 million for the next phase of the Second Avenue subway station in Manhattan.
The Biden administration’s finances proposal contains $400 million for the following section of the Second Avenue subway in Manhattan.
Kevin P. Coughlin / Workplace of the Governor
The subway extension would add stops at 106th Street, 116th Street and 125th Street.
The subway extension would add stops at 106th Road, 116th Road and a hundred and twenty fifth Road.
Kevin P. Coughlin / Workplace of the Governor
Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged to start the extension in 2022.
Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged to start out the extension in 2022.
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New York will be capable to apply for extra funds from the president’s finances as a part of a separate course of, in accordance with Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer’s workplace, which added that about half of the mission is eligible to obtain federal cash.

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