Montague Street Tunnel Will Reopen In October, MTA Says

By on March 5, 2014 10:11 pm in Transportation

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the Montague Street tunnel will reopen in October. The passage had closed for repairs last year to fix damage done during superstorm Sandy. Service changes were made for the duration on the R line. The MTA shared an update, the paper reports, at a meeting of CB10 recently.

Brooklyn Eagle: Workers are removing all of the wiring, lighting, signals, and concrete in the tunnel, MTA officials told the Traffic and Transportation Committee. The tunnel has been striped bare, right down to its cast iron ring, installed 100 years ago.

Workers are busy inspecting the tunnel for leaks and are stopping those leaks through a chemical grouting injection process, according to the MTA. During this process, over 2,000 of the original bolts holding together the 18 foot diameter cast iron tunnel rings and liner are being replaced with specially manufactured grout bolts. Before the project is complete, it is estimated that more than 6,000 high strength steel bolts will be replaced.

The repairs are, in reality, a complete rebuilding of the interior of the tunnel, according to Cruz, who called the work “an amazing feat of engineering and logistics.”

Photo: Marc Hermann/MTA

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  • Jorale-man

    If you walk by the entrances near St. Ann’s on Montague St. you can see there are new tiles at the bottom of the stairways. That bodes well for the station as a whole. I remember how the old station was in really terrible shape and the platforms looked like a third-world prison.

  • Abbeykira

    The inside of the station is still filthy. I am glad it looks like it will reopen on time but I do hope they take the time to give the place a good power-wash!

  • harumph

    can NOT wait for this to open. my dislike for the 4/5 train has only been growing exponentially!

  • Andrew Porter

    If you want to look at the reconstruction work, walk over to the Promenade and look down at the stump of Montague Street. You’ll see all the work down there, including concrete trucks pouring building materials into the MTA ventilation shaft and where lots of temporary sheds have been built. The street in front of the Montague/Clinton entrance also now has enclosures for reconstruction materials.