Transportation
Closed
for Renovations
www.qns.com I LIC COURIER I OCTOBER 2017 19
BY ANGELA MATUA
AMATUA@QNS.COM
Starting on Oct. 23, Astoria residents
who normally use the 30th Avenue and
36th Avenue stations to get to work will
have to walk a little further.
The stations will close until June 2018
for renovations that were announced by
Governor Andrew Cuomo last January.
According to an MTA spokesperson, the
upgrades will include structural repairs,
new and rehabilitated station entrances,
improved mezzanines and platforms and
other amenities like USB ports, digital
screens and countdown clocks.
Signs will be posted to advise
straphangers of the closure and the
spokesperson said shuttle buses will
not be provided for riders during the
eight-month period. Residents will have
to walk to Astoria Boulevard, Broadway
or 39 Avenue stations for service.
After the changes are completed,
the Broadway and 39 Avenue stations
will close for renovations.
In total, 30 stations across the city will
be overhauled. The stations will be com-pletely
shut down to expedite the process.
“This is absolutely vital to the daily
functioning of New York City, but for too
long, it has failed to meet the region’s
growing size and strength,” Cuomo said
in a January statement. “This is about
doing more than just repair and maintain.
This is thinking bigger and better and
building the 21st-century transit system
New Yorkers deserve.”
DNAinfo first reported the story.
Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Shuttle buses will not
be provided for riders
during the eight-month
period. Residents will
have to walk to Astoria
Boulevard, Broadway
or 39 Avenue stations
for service.
