From NY1:The MTA is moving forward with a long-term plan to bring Metro-North to Penn Station.
The agency is conducting an environmental study of how best to provide direct train service from its Hudson and New Haven lines to Penn Station.
The proposal includes daily Hudson Line service using Amtrak's Empire Connection with two new stations near West 125th and the Upper West Side.
Daily New Haven line service via the Hell Gate line would also undergo some changes including three new stations in Co-op City, Parkchester and Hunts Point.
While the plan is still in the early stages, the environmental assessment is expected to be complete by 2011.
6 comments:
First the LIRR wants to go to Grand Central and now Metro North wants to go to Penn Station. Either way, what a waste of money.
How is it a waste?
Metro North to Penn Station is more feasible than East Side Access for the LIRR. Most of the infrastructure is there already except the third rail and switches.
Anonymous said...
Metro North to Penn Station is more feasible than East Side Access for the LIRR. Most of the infrastructure is there already except the third rail and switches.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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Exactly, the switches may not be needed. Any Amtrak train that runs from Penn Station and goes along the Hudson River line now uses these tracks. All that's needed is the third rail. That's not cheap, but absolutely no construction is needed.
They came up with the idea back in 08.
1908.
Really.
They wanted to relieve congestion at Grand Centeral.
And oh yes, they wanted a crosstine line (the G train) to be a cornstone for a business district from Queens Plaza to Atlantic Ave that would parallel Broadway in NY.
WWI, the Depression, WWII, the Suburbs, drugs and violence, and whoompa, here it is again.
They came up with the idea back in 08.
1908.
Really.
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