Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 20, 2016

The Second Avenue Subway (officially the IND Second Avenue Line; abbreviated to SAS) is a future New York City Subway line that has been under discussion for almost a century. The line will run primarily under Second Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan. A first phase of this new line is expected to open on December 30, 2016, having been under construction since 2007. It will run between 96th Street and Second Avenue and the existing BMT 63rd Street Line, where it will connect to the rest of the subway system. The full line, when funded, will be built in three additional phases, allowing portions of the line to open before the entire line is completed. When complete, it is projected to serve about 560,000 daily riders. The full proposed Second Avenue line would consist of 16 stations and 8.5 mi of tunnel, and is expected to cost over $17 billion.