MTA Construction & Development Releases 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Strategic Plan
Written by Jennifer McLawhorn, Managing Editor
MTA Construction & Development details previous progress and future plans in 2025 Strategic Plan.
Courtesy of MTA
NEW YORK CITY - The MTA Construction & Development (C&D) released its 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Strategic Plan, where it reports $3 billion was saved on capital project delivery in the first five years.
In 2024, MTA C&D awarded $4.6 billion in various commitments and completed $5.5 billion worth of projects. These include launching “the first new subway cars on the Staten Island Railway in 50 years” and making 16 stations ADA accessible.
According to the release, the 2025 Strategic Plan goes back to 2020 when it was founded and charts the C&D’s progress over the last five years. Additionally, it details a plan for the year, including “an ambitious docket of projects.” MTA C&D states it is developing the 2025-2029 Capital Program, which will be completed and released by the end of the year. Informed by the Twenty-Year Needs Assessment, the MTA is seeking full funding of the proposed 2025-29 Capital Plan where more than 90% is proposed to “improving and rebuilding the existing system.”
Titled “Better. Faster. Cheaper.,” the plan includes the following savings:
- Better Contracts: $1.1 billion saved from better contracting strategies
- Better Planning: $750 million saved from better upfront planning and identifying better design
- Better Delivery: $750 million saved from contract budget efficiencies vs actual budget cost
- Better Management: $400 million saved in insurance reductions
The plan includes making 13 MTA stations accessible. Located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, the following stations will receive upgrades, new elevators, new fare areas, and improved stairways.
- Norwood Av
- 207 St
- 191 St
- 157 St
- 23 St
- Spring St
- Avenue N
- Brighton Beach
- Van Siclen Av
- Wilson Av
- Forest Av
- 103 St
- 88 St
Map of Stations Receiving ADA Upgrades
“Over the past five years, MTA C&D has transformed the way the MTA delivers capital projects for our riders. The result has been the fastest, cheapest, and most effective project delivery in MTA history. And we’re just getting started,” said MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer. “From an exciting slate of projects already on track for 2025, to an ambitious and achievable scope of work in our proposed upcoming capital plan, there’s never been a more exciting time to deliver a better public transit system in New York.”
The release states that the MTA C&D is looking forward to 2025 where the Strategic Plan “looks toward continued improvements in executing the remainder of the 2020-24 capital plan, advancing long-range planning for the future of the public transit system in New York, and growing its in-house capacity to further reduce costs and project timelines going forward.”
