In a recent op-ed submission (“The missing Hudson Yards No. 7 intermediate subway station three years later,” Sept. 28), Larry Penner implied that the 7 train extension to Hudson Yards went over budget by $300 million.
In actuality, the cost increased to cover an expansion of the project’s scope, at the direction of the city, to rebuild the 11th Avenue viaduct through the Hudson Yards area.
This city-funded scope expansion saved the City from having to do that work on its own, and was unrelated to the decision to pull back on the 10th Avenue station, which had been made by the city years earlier.
The subway-related portion of the project finished under budget at $2.1 billion.
Janno Lieber
MTA Chief Development Officer
