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The Interborough Express
The MTA released station designs for the $5.5 billion Interborough Express, an 18-station light rail line running on existing freight tracks from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, projected to carry 160,000 daily riders in 32 minutes. Only half the project's funding is identified through the MTA's current capital plan, and a draft Environmental Impact Statement due this fall will open public meetings for Brooklyn and Queens residents to weigh in before the line, New York's first new transit line since 1937, can move toward construction.
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Sep 10, 2026 Latest
MTA Chair Janno Lieber said riders are still at least five years from riding the Interborough Express even as the agency released new station renderings, and only $2.75 billion of the $5.5 billion project is funded, Brooklyn Paper reported.
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Sep 10, 2026
The MTA released station designs for the $5.5 billion, 18-station Interborough Express light rail line, showing renderings including a New Utrecht Avenue station in Borough Park with multiple elevators, wider fare gates and digital signage; the line would run on existing CSX and Long Island Rail Road freight tracks from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Roosevelt Avenue in 32 minutes, requiring no new tunnels, Gothamist and ABC7 reported.
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