From the Times Ledger:The already long awaited day that Long Island Rail Road trains finally pull into Grand Central Terminal has crept even further into the future along with a higher price tag.
Craig Stewart, senior director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Projects Plan, said the massive project is again over budget and once more running late.
In remarks before an MTA committee Monday, Stewart said the cost of the East Side Access, now estimated at $8.3 billion,“ could cost more” and he expressed doubt the latest completion date could be met.
The East Side Access was originally estimated to be a $4.3 billion project with a completion date of 2009. The latest date for the trains to start rolling underneath the East River had been 2019.
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I still say it won't happen until 2033.
worst mass transit in the world.
The LIRR is a joke and not affordable for most people!
Perhaps it should cancel all those bullshit disability pensions. What is it - approx. 95% of their employees retire early at 90% of full salary (calculated with LOTS AND LOTS of overtime)?
This system is ridiculous. $15.00 for a round trip 22 minute ride into the city from the Broadway station in Flooshing?????
And the trains are run down, filthy, and look like shit!!!!
Cancel those bullshit pensions!!!!!
The lirr should stay right where it belongs. It should not expand. Let people's lazy asses take their transfer to get to the train. All they are going to do is raise fares on people, as if we already don't pay enough to take that Damn train. The prices are crazy on there already!
LIRR does sell monthly tickets if you're going to ride every day. $177 from forest hills to Penn
Only $8 billion? Chump change. Bernanke/Yellen print that in two days (FED prints $75 billion a month as of today for QE)
According to Congresswoman Baloney Maloney before a Dutch Kills civic group this money is being spent on 'Dutch Kills'.
The crowd laughed at her.
I kid you not.
The LIRR is a joke and not affordable for most people!
Really? Then why is half the train going from Auburndale to Great Neck 3rd worlders in the morning!?
Deblasio plans to divert funds to the homeless
Pension and disability abuse is driving up costs on the LIRR.
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