Planned SAS Route/stations and Designation
The plans for the Second Avenue Subway involve digging 8.5 miles (13.7 km) of new tunnel from 125th Street in Harlem south to Hanover Square, which is located in Manhattan's Financial District. Initially, during Phase I, the line will begin at the intersection of Second Avenue and 96th Street, running south to join the BMT Broadway Line via the existing BMT 63rd Street Line. Phase I stations will be located at 96th Street, 86th Street and 72nd Street. Plans call for the Q service to be re-routed to 96th Street (though the effect of the 2010 subway service changes on these plans are unknown), and then in Phase II to 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. After Phase III, the new T service will operate from 125th Street to Houston Street. After Phase IV opens, T service will run the full length of the line, from 125th Street to Hanover Square.
The MTA decided to designate the main, full-length Second Avenue service the T in part for the following reasons:
- The letters O and I are too easily confused with the digits 0 and 1, respectively.
- The letters H and K were used in the relatively recent past to denote services on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, which includes the A, C and E trains, and thus are not preferred.
- The letters P, U and Y are too similar to words.
This left the letter T as the final choice.
The new stations of the completed Second Avenue Line are proposed as follows, with Phase 1 under construction:
| Station | Phase | Transfers & Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 125th Street | 2 | Northern terminal station for Q train (Phase 2) and T train (Phase 3) 4 5 6 <6> trains (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport connection to Harlem – 125th Street (Metro-North Railroad) at Lexington Avenue and 125th Street |
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| Provision for expansion to The Bronx | |||
| 116th Street | 2 | ||
| 106th Street | 2 | ||
| 96th Street | 1 | Northern terminal station for Q train in Phase 1 | |
| 86th Street | 1 | ||
| 72nd Street | 1 | ||
| Q train splits to BMT Broadway Line via BMT 63rd Street Line (Phase 1) | |||
| T train continues down Second Avenue (Phase 3) | |||
| 55th Street | 3 | E M trains (IND Queens Boulevard Line) at Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street 4 6 <6> trains (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) at 51st Street |
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| 42nd Street | 3 | 7 <7> trains (IRT Flushing Line) S train (IRT 42nd Street Shuttle) 4 5 6 <6> trains (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) at Grand Central – 42nd Street connection to Grand Central Terminal (Metro-North Railroad & Long Island Rail Road once East Side Access Project is completed.) |
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| 34th Street | 3 | ||
| 23rd Street | 3 | ||
| 14th Street | 3 | L train (BMT Canarsie Line) at Third Avenue | |
| Houston Street | 3 | F train (IND Sixth Avenue Line) at Second Avenue Southern terminal station for T train (Phase 3) |
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| Grand Street | 4 | B D trains (IND Sixth Avenue Line) | |
| Chatham Square | 4 | at Worth Street | |
| Seaport | 4 | at Fulton Street | |
| Hanover Square | 4 | at Old Slip Southern terminal station for T train (Phase 4) |
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| Provision for expansion to Brooklyn | |||
The above stations will serve the Second Avenue main service, terminating at 125th Street and at Hanover Square. In addition to the main service, tentatively dubbed the T, and colored turquoise, a connection is planned to the BMT Broadway Line, utilizing an existing connection via the BMT 63rd Street Line, as part of phase 1. It is likely that the Q service will be extended northward from 57th Street – Seventh Avenue, curving east under Central Park on the unused portion of the BMT 63rd Street Line. The Q train would stop at Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street with a cross-platform interchange to the IND 63rd Street Line (F train) before merging with the Second Avenue Line at 64th Street. Thus, the residents of Spanish Harlem and the Upper East Side will have direct mass transit service down both Second Avenue and Broadway to the Financial District, and across the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn via the Q train.
An additional two-track connection is planned between the line towards Lower Manhattan (around 62nd Street) and the IND 63rd Street Line towards Queens; current plans don't call for it to be used by regular service. Provisions are also being made for an extension north under Second Avenue past 125th Street to the Bronx, and an extension south to Brooklyn. No track connection will be provided to the Chrystie Street Connection.
Just north of Broome Street, the subway will pass under a short unused highway tunnel, the only part of the Lower Manhattan Expressway to be built.
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