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| Dragados to extend subway in New York Dragados, S.A., the leading company of the construction area of the Spanish ACS-group, has been awarded the first contract of the New York Subway extension, namely the construction of the East Side Access Manhattan Tunnels, worth $428 million. New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has awarded the joint venture comprising Dragados USA Inc. and its local partner Judlau Contracting Inc., the contract for the construction of a new direct Subway connection between the Long Island network in Queens and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. In order to execute this project, Dragados will use two hard-rock tunnel boring machines that will construct four tunnels with a total length of 7,500 metres. No tunnels have been constructed in the New York Subway transport network for 25 years and tunnel boring machines have never been used to build them. The works will start immediately and will be completed within 50 months. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |