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A withering dispute between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Amtrak could lead to delays in the completion of the Penn Access megaproject
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A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to send LIRR trains to Grand Central grew in both costs and construction delays, federal documents show.
The federally-defined Urbanized Area 1 (UZA 1) comprises New York City and its suburbs, spreading into New Jersey and Connecticut (UZA 2 is L.A., UZA 3 is Chicago, etc.), so when the Federal Transit Administration had $14 billion in COVID aid to send, Albany, Trenton and Hartford had to agree on dividing the cash.
Increased rail capacity will reduce crowding on trains, subways and in Penn Station.
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday rode the first passenger LIRR train into the new concourse at the Midtown East transit hub and gave the public a first look at the