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Governor Hochul: “We're turning these old tracks into something remarkable. A clean, fast, 14-mile light rail line – a connection between Brooklyn and Queens like never before… it'll serve about 160,000 riders a day and get this — a ride from end-to-end will take 32 minutes, 10 minutes less than the initial estimate. 32 minutes. Riders will save 30 minutes each way. If you're a round trip commuter, guess what? That's an hour. An hour back in your life.”
Hochul: “It's not just about creating the track, the stations, all the work that's going to be involved… it's about creating connections between communities. This is about bringing people together, that the outer boroughs are now joined, that there's not a requirement that if you want to go see your mother in Queens from Brooklyn, that you have to go to Manhattan first. Manhattan is a lovely place, but why did people envision a world where you had to go there first to be able to come out to another borough? That will not be the future.”
Earlier today, Governor Hochul announced that the engineering and design phase of the Interborough Express (IBX) has commenced, the next step in the development of the transformative transit project. On Wednesday, the MTA Board authorized the selection of a joint venture between Jacobs and HDR as the team that will oversee the design and engineering phase of the IBX. This represents major progress for the project, which will connect historically underserved communities in Brooklyn and Queens to the subway, bus and Long Island Rail Road, while significantly reducing travel times between Brooklyn and Queens, with an end-to-end run time of 32 minutes along the 14-mile line. In April, Governor Hochul approved $2.75 billion in funding for the project as part of the historic 2025-2029 MTA Capital Plan.
VIDEO: The event is available to stream on YouTube here and TV quality video is available here (h.264, mp4).
AUDIO: The Governor's remarks are available in audio form here.
PHOTOS of the Governor riding the subway with Janno Lieber and greeting passengers is available here.
PHOTOS: The Governor's Flickr page will post photos of the event here.