East Side Access
Penn Statio𓆉n favorite opening🧸 a spot at Grand Central Madison
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has reeled a former Penn Station eatery, and long-time favorite of commuters, into the Long I🍌sland Rail Road's n𝓀ew terminal beneath Grand Central.
LIRR failed to order new trains as promised for Gran🎀d Central, causing commuter woes: docs ൲
LꦆIRR commuters have been plagued by overcrowding and botched schedules for months — because no new trains were ever ordered as promised for Grand Central Terminal, documents show.
MTA staffs﷽ up weekend LIRR trains more than week💃days despite low ridership
"Many city riders are struggling every day to get where we need to go," said Danny P♕earlstein, the top spokesman for the Riders Al🌠liance..
Hell on wheels: MܫTA adds Brooklyn shuttles, longer trains but still leave LIRR riders fuming
Over the summer, the L💛IRR said thꦚat it expected roughly 45 percent of its Manhattan-bound passengers would opt for the new East Side service.
Hell-LIRR: For $1♊5 bill🐲ion, EVERY commuter should get better service
Other than the few commuters overjoyed at exiting at Madison Avenue instead of Penn (we know one), the only winners here are th🐠e Harvard Business School folks who can now... 🌜
MTA told back in🍎 2012 of Grand൩ Central LIRR commute-mare
The dire pr🦹ediction came in an analysis of the Jamaica, Queens station's capacity, completed in 2012.
LIRR commuter says 'Hunger Games'-like MTA switch 'means hour lost' each day'
Glen Cove resident Ian Siegel's daily commute to Brooklyn is now at leas༒t an hour longer and mayhem-filled thanks to the schedule 💃overhaul ordered by the MTA's Long Island Rail...
NYC commuters rage over $11B Grꦑand Central rush hour hell rides
ౠ Commuter anger and frustration built for the fourth day at the main hub in Jamaica for th🌺e MTA's Long Island Rail Road on Thursday following the rollout of the railroad's...
Not so Grand: NYC riders fume as MTA launches LIRR 'Madison' changes
The Metropo♏litan Transportation Authority launched the biggest schedule shakeup in 50 years at the Long Island Rail Road on꧑ Monday — with dozens of trains serving its new Grand Central...
Grand Central's LIRR terminal to finally open after over 60 years of waiting
The first LIRR trains will run to Grand Cen🔯tral on Wednesday a whopping 15 years after construction on the $11.6 billion project ♐to connect the railway to major transit hub...
The one thing holding up the openi﷽ng of $11B LIRR terminal at Grand Central ﷽
"An $11 billion project is depending on that fan -- or that series of ducts -- pull💯ing enough air to satisfy the code standard," MTA CEO Janno Lieber said.
Feds let MTA cut regulatory corner to open LIRR terminal by year's end
The new Long Island Railroad terminal can open next month without the legally required technology in plac𝓰e to prevent collisions with Amtrak trains, officials said.
🐼 LIRR OT cheats slept on the job as costly MTA mega-project dragged on
Thomas Caputo, John Nugent and Joseph Balestra have all pleaded guilty to conspir🌠acy in OT theft from the MTA. They face 16 months in jail.
Hochul likens 'scary' Penn Station to haunted house during tour of new LIRR terminal at Grand Central
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday pledged to take action to fix "scary" Penn Station during a tour of Grand Central'sﷺ long🥀-delayed and severely overbudget "East Side Access" terminal.
Cuomo says 'major construction' done on costly East Side Access project
The new 350,000-square-foot stationꦐ "140 feet below Park Avenue" is slated to open 15 years after construction started.
MTA doesn't know why subways cost so much more to build in NYC
The MTA's construction chief said Tuesday that the transit authority is just beginning to examine why it costs more money to build a subway in New York than other major...⭕
Cuo﷽mo orders review of bloated East Side Ac🐈cess project
Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered an independent review of the bloated and much-maligned East Side Access project to co🤪nne💖ct the Long Island Rail Road with Grand Central Terminal. The announcement caught...