MTA? Call me when everything is finished. Not before.

From article, "Second Avenue subway construction nearly complete, but still no launch date, MTA says"

(Staff has been trained, signals have been tested, but there’s still no opening date set for the Second Avenue subway.

With nearly all work completed on the line’s first phase, MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast said at a Monday committee meeting that he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the agency will open the Second Avenue subway before the year’s end. 

And he wouldn’t elaborate further. 

“That’s as clear as I can state it,” Prendergast said. 

The last of the work needed to open the $4.5 billion project is on track to be completed by Dec. 24, 2016, according to a report from an independent engineer presented to the MTA board on Monday.)

Me, "It's amazing that the MTA has the balls to claim the Second Avenue Subway will arrive on time after all their other projects, Extension of the 7 line, (opened 2 years late) and East Side Access (which was to be completed in 2009) may not be done until 2023.

It's not that I look down on the MTA or its projects. It's just that they start going out of control. I mean how hard is it to drill a tunnel, lay track, add signals, and construct stations? We've been doing it since the 19th century.

 I would ask the contractors at these projects but for some reason they are either not working or out to lunch as the head of MTA Construction Projects, Michael Horodniceanu recently found out.

It comes down to accountability and I don't think the MTA is accountable. Think about this: they are publicizing the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway as the main event, when we still have 3 more Second Avenue Subway phases of construction to commence. 
MTA? Call me when everything is finished. Not before.