New rails should solve R train vibrations, MTA says
The MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) doesn’t know what caused buildings along the Fourth Avenue route of the R train to shake, but the agency has come up with a solution, an official said.
“I have some good news,” Melissa Farley, assistant director of government and community relations for MTA New York City Transit, told the Traffic and Transportation Committee of Community Board 10 at a Sept. 3 meeting.
The MTA will soon be completing a project in which the rails along the R line in Bay Ridge are being replaced, according to Farley, who said the work has been ongoing since 2014.
In 2013, numerous residents living along Fourth Avenue and on several of the side streets off Fourth Avenue complained to Board 10 and to elected officials about strange vibrations they believed were coming from the R train, which runs underground beneath Fourth Avenue.