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Major makeover coming to M line in R’wood
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES@
Members of the New York City
Transit attended a Community
Board 5 transportation
services meeting April 23 to discuss
the Queens phase of their 40-month
plan to give the entire M train a
makeover beginning next week.
The $43 million project will
provide structural steel repair
work and overcoat painting to the
elevated structure of undergirding
the entire train line, beginning
with the Queens side of the train.
The construction workers
will be based out of a workplace
underneath the M line at
Madison and Woodward Street in
Ridgewood. Their plan is to paint
the elevated structure a new coat
of “forest green” paint, moving
toward Metropolitan Middle
Village Station.
“We anticipate though, at least
being on the Queens side of the M
through the summer. We’ll sort
of see where we end up after the
summer,” said Lucille Songhai,
assistant director of government
and community relations for New
York City Transit.
Fresh Pond Road Station Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
In addition to maintaining and
repainting the steel structure,
the construction crew will be
cleaning the area underneath the
train, which has become a site of
excessive dumping in various spots
along the line.
Songhai announced that there
are no plans for any changes to the
subway service along the line as a
result of the repairs.
She also reassured residents
that the construction crew
will be containing the areas of
construction as they are removing
the paint in order to mitigate chips
of lead paint from scattering into
the surrounding area.
“Pretty much every structure in
NYC transit owns needs some sort
of lead abatement,” Songhai said.
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