“Amtrak has worked through challenges and has agreed to a long-term single-track outage that affords us an opportunity to recover lost time,” Jamie Torres-Springer, president of MTA Construction and Development, said in a statement to THE CITY. Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible. MTA officials said Friday the agreement with Amtrak could now potentially put Penn Station Access back on track to make its targeted opening - after previously saying the agency had a “short window” to complete the project because of planned structural work at Penn Station. The bridge currently is used by Amtrak trains traveling along its Northeast Corridor route, as well as some freight trains. THE CITY reported in January that the $2.8 billion mega-project faced six to nine months of delays after MTA executives accused Amtrak of limiting access to the tracks that cross the Hell Gate Bridge. The commitment around the work on the proposed suburban rail link to Penn Station comes as the MTA’s new Long Island Rail Road hub beneath Grand Central Terminal goes through growing pains of its own, with many commuters unhappy over new schedules and added travel time.īut the work on Penn Station Access likely will slow service for several months for travelers on the New Haven Line. It aims to add four new Metro-North stations in The Bronx by 2027 and create a terminal on Manhattan’s West Side for a commuter railroad that serves the northern suburbs. The federally funded passenger railroad this week pledged to open the tracks along the Hell Gate Line to MTA construction crews and contractors working on the Penn Station Access project. Amtrak has agreed to add what MTA officials called “the missing ingredient” in their plan to connect Metro-North commuters to Penn Station - a project facing delays and cost overruns because of a lack of coordination between the two sides.
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