Cuomo cancels the L-train shutdown
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo surprised New York City straphangers during a press conference on Thursday by announcing that the long-planned 15-month shutdown of the L-train subway service will not happen as originally planned. Construction had been scheduled to begin April 27 to repair the damage sustained by the Canarsie Tunnel in 2012 during Superstorm Sandy.
Instead, new tunnel construction technology — proposed by Columbia and Cornell Universities’ engineering departments — will be used, eliminating the need for a full closure, something Cuomo called “a major breakthrough.”