August 31, 2010
Drill Down: Going Deep With NYC’s Second Avenue Subway Project — NEW YORK CITY — When it’s finally completed in 2016, New York City’s Second Avenue Subway Line will be the culmination of 75 years worth of planning, millions of tons of extracted slag, and over $17 billion in spending. But that’s not the point. What’s important is that this long-awaited public transportation option will connect thousands of people from Harlem to the Lower East Side. If New York City is the heart of the world, this route will certainly be one of its major arteries. Wired Science descended seven stories beneath Manhattan to uncover the tempestuous history of the line, speak with the men and women excavating it, and meet the literal spearhead of the project: an 800-foot long, two-story-tall tunnel-boring machine capable of chewing through 60 feet of subterranean rock every day. (via wired)

Drill Down: Going Deep With NYC’s Second Avenue Subway Project

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NEW YORK CITY — When it’s finally completed in 2016, New York City’s Second Avenue Subway Line will be the culmination of 75 years worth of planning, millions of tons of extracted slag, and over $17 billion in spending. But that’s not the point. What’s important is that this long-awaited public transportation option will connect thousands of people from Harlem to the Lower East Side. If New York City is the heart of the world, this route will certainly be one of its major arteries.

Wired Science descended seven stories beneath Manhattan to uncover the tempestuous history of the line, speak with the men and women excavating it, and meet the literal spearhead of the project: an 800-foot long, two-story-tall tunnel-boring machine capable of chewing through 60 feet of subterranean rock every day.

(via wired)

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