Brooklynites will get relief starting Monday when the R-train tunnel to lower Manhattan opens after a 13-month shutdown, the longest any MTA tube has ever been closed, officials said.
The first R train will leave at 5 a.m. from Brooklyn. The 65,000 commuters who use it won’t have to crowd onto other lines in Downtown Brooklyn and Park Slope anymore.
The new tunnel is the first in the system to have heavy-duty metal submarine doors.
They protect the circuit room, whose electrical controls power the rails in the tunnel.
The project to rebuild the tunnel — called the Montague Tube — after millions of gallons of salt water from Hurricane Sandy destroyed it was completed ahead of its October deadline and is $ 58 million under budget.
“New York’s transit network suffered more damage than anyone at the MTA has ever seen in our lifetimes,” said MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast.
“The effort required to build the Montague Tube was nothing short of heroic.”
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