The R train could begin operating between Brooklyn and Manhattan for the first time since Sandy by the end of the week, a top MTA official said today.
Transit workers are making repairs on the badly-damaged Montague Street Tunnel - which was heavily flooded in the super storm - round the clock, said Carmen Bianco, senior vice president of subways.
The tunnel is used by the R to go under the East River.
"We hope to get that (running) by Dec. 21," Bianco said today at the MTA's monthly transit committee meeting.
President of New York City Transit Thomas Prendergast said that the A train in the Rockaways will likely be the next piece of the system to reopen.
Its unclear when the South Ferry 1 train stop will reopen.
That Lower Manhattan station had $600 million in damages from the storm.
Prendergast said the agency is still deciding how to fix South Ferry.
It might be restored exactly like it was, or officials might construct it differently, he said.
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