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The nonstop pace of the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site is legendary. No less ambitious is the work under way to restore subway service there by the end of the year.
The collapse of the WorldTrade Center damaged about 1,400 ft (430 m) of New York City's 1 and 9 lines, which serve the west side of Manhattan, disrupting subway service to such critical intermodal hubs as Penn Station and the Staten Island Ferry. "This is impacting our whole system," says Mysore Nagaraja, a senior vice president and chief engineer of mTA-NewYork City Transit. "We want to get back to normal as quickly as possible."
To expedite the project, in-house mTA engineers prepared the contract documents, including...