Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 33
WABC: Queens, WABC: A repair project on a five-mile stretch of the A train that started in January and shut down a portion of the Rockaways line is now set to open by Memorial Day. Two hundred construction workers have been working in two shifts, 20 hours a day, since January. And the A train will soon be returning to the Rockaways.
Jamie Torres-Springer is the head of construction and development for the MTA.
“We never want to take service out, but we really didn’t have a choice here,” Torres-Springer said. “But we promised to bring it back by Memorial Day and we’re going to do that on time and on budget.”
For the people who live, work or go to school in the Rockaways, the A train is a lifeline. But after 65 years of punishing storms and round-the-clock wear and tear, a section of the route was crumbling, as Eyewitness News first saw back in November.
So a five-mile stretch of it was shut down across Jamaica Bay for crucial repairs. It has included new concrete, new rails and a huge seawall-which they didn’t have during Superstorm Sandy.
