Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick had HAL 9000. NASA named a treadmill for Stephen Colbert.And over nearly five years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has had its fleet of 200-ton tunnel-boring machines, plowing beneath the city in service of the agency's megaprojects.
They were named for the granddaughter of the transportation authority's construction chief; named “Molina” because sixth graders liked the name; and, less poignantly, named for the companies that manufactured them. And, when the city says it will fund an extension of a subway line, it is perhaps wise to name two machines after the mayor's daughters.
On Monday, the last machine, Molina, completed its run beneath the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line in Long Island City, Queens, as part of the so-called East Side Access project, which will connect the commuter rails in Queens to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.The transportation authority said that with Molina's journey complete, all tunnel boring for its major projects had been finished.
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