Muni approves $233M contract for Central Subway tunneling project in San Francisco
Will Reisman
San Francisco Examiner
06/28/11
Muni’s board of directors approved a $233 million tunneling contract for its Central Subway project on Tuesday, a move seen as an essential step by the agency, but decried by its critics as too hasty.
The seven-person board voted unanimously to award the tunnel-boring contract — the largest construction package of the agency’s $1.6 billion undertaking — to Barnard Impregilo Healy, a Montana-based contractor. The Central Subway, scheduled to open in 2019, will extend Muni’s underground Metro service from the Financial District to Chinatown.
Nathaniel Ford, executive director of the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, said “this tunneling contract is a major part of opening a dynamic, new era in rapid transit for the people of San Francisco, and especially for those traveling along the congested Stockton corridor.”
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