Updated 01/28/2009 03:01 PM
Subway Platform Gap Too Wide At South Ferry Station
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Plans to open the new South Ferry subway station are coming up just about an inch short.
Testing last weekend found the station's gaps between the train and the platform are about an inch wider than federal regulations allow – meaning workers will have to install a new, wider, plastic strip at the edge of the platform. This will delay the opening by another three to four weeks.
The station was supposed to open late last month.
It is unclear if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority or the contractor will pay the $200,000 cost of fixing the mistake.
"We are investigating how we got to this point, so we know exactly how to assign liability and to whom," said Michael Horodniceanu, president of the MTA Capital Construction Co.
"If it wasn't this, it might have been something else and it might have been serious," said MTA Chariman Dale Hemmerdinger. "This is not serious. This is easily correctable. We want the station to open so that we don't have any problems with the public. We're trying to be extra careful."
The $530 million station is being paid for mostly through federal funding.