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The East Side Access project was based on regional planning proposals that were first brought up in the 1950s. [2]: 18 (PDF p.21) In March 1954, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) issued a $658 million construction program.
Penn Station Access (PSA) is a public works project underway by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City. The goal of the project is to allow Metro-North Railroad commuter trains to access Penn Station on Manhattan 's West Side, using existing trackage owned by Amtrak. Metro-North trains currently terminate exclusively at ...
The Gateway Program is a planned expansion and renovation of the Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City along the right-of-way between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station. The project is intended to build new rail bridges in the New Jersey Meadowlands, a new set of tunnels under Bergen Hill ...
The MTA dropped the plan for the station in 2016 to save time on the long-stalled East Side Access project. (MTA/) In 2010, the MTA estimated the Sunnyside station would cost $53.4 million, and ...
The MTA estimated that East Side Access will be complete in early 2023. [10] [11] By November 2018, two of three East Side Access tunnel portals had been built at Harold Interlocking; [12] the remaining portal had been completed by early 2021. [13] Ultimately, East Side Access opened on January 25, 2023. [14]
Grand Central Madison. Grand Central Madison is a commuter rail terminal for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Part of the East Side Access project, the new terminal started construction in 2008 and opened on January 25, 2023. [ 5 ] The station sits beneath Grand Central Terminal ...
[10]: 8 (PDF p.11) In 1999, the MTA proposed a $17 billion five-year capital budget, which included a $1.6 billion LIRR connection to a new station under Grand Central Terminal, to be built as part of a project called East Side Access. [49] The project's final environmental impact assessment (FEIS) was released in March 2001. [50]: 1 [a] Two ...
The East River Tunnels are four single-track railroad passenger service tunnels that extend from the eastern end of Pennsylvania Station under 32nd and 33rd Streets in Manhattan and cross the East River to Long Island City in Queens. The tracks carry Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Amtrak trains travelling to and from Penn Station and points ...