Now, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, is going to take an even more drastic step to speed up repair work — the agency is going to shut down a subway tunnel. The news of yet another subway inconvenience was met with a mix of understanding and outrage from riders. “That goes toward my grade.”The repairs planned in the tunnel would typically have been completed on weekends, stretched over five weeks. On Tuesday, the Regional Plan Association, an urban research organization, issued a report providing recommendations on how the authority could make the most of the L tunnel shutdown. In making repairs to the L tunnel, subway officials could, for example, add elevators to stations, she said.

Source: New Strait Times December 13, 2017 04:41 UTC