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Governor Hochul joined the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to take a special Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) test train to Grand Central Terminal and gave the public one of the first-ever looks at the new 350,000-square-foot East Side Access passenger terminal there.

The long-anticipated and long-delayed rail route from Long Island to Grand Central Terminal is nearing reality

"East Side Access is one of North America's largest transportation projects--an audacious $11 billion idea changing the entire regional transportation system," Governor Cuomo said.

After 50 years, the MTA's <a href=" https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-cuomo-mta-lirr-grand-central-east-side-access-20210527-dbfwndbpdzgipb5qsm2wbfobha-story.html">East Side</a> Access project is nearly finished. The seven-block train hall will bring the LIRR trains directly to Grand Central terminal.

Governor Cuomo announced the completion of civil construction on East Side Access - the MTA's megaproject connecting the Long Island Rail Road to a new 350,000-square-foot passenger terminal under Grand Central Terminal. 

The $11.1 billion endeavor includes a new 350,000-square-foot passenger terminal under Grand Central that can handle eight trains at a time, doubling the LIRR’s capacity into Manhattan with up to 24 trains per hour.

It will provide new, direct LIRR service into a new concourse below Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan’s East Side. The project encompasses work in multiple locations throughout Manhattan and Queens, and includes more than eight miles of tunneling.  "East Side Access is one of North Americas largest transportation projects--an audacious $11 billion idea changing the entire regional transportation system," Cuomo said. "Thanks to the hard work of the so many people, major construction on thi...

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