Citing insufficient funding and lack of need for a station, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) let a Sept. 13 contract deadline pass for construction of a new subway station on the No. 7 line at 10th Avenue and 41st Street. The station was part of early plans for the extension of the No. 7 west of Times Square to the Jacob K. Javits Center at 11th Avenue and 34th Street. Critics of the decision say that the bypassed area is growing and requires access to the subway, particularly as the city works to develop the far west side of Manhattan.