https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpRVAR_emBY
$16 billion program in nyc area to upgrade passenger rail lines - 1
million people go in and out of the city daily - replacing bridge -
building new tunnels - maybe building a new train station - the 100
year old infrastructure is crumbling
up to 450 trains per day with 200,000 passengers use one of the trans
hudson RR tunnels
one has to wonder though - is this a good use of money? - didnt covid
prove that 90% of the usa can work from home?
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from the comments
Penn Station has enough tracks & platforms but not utilized correctly.
Only the middle 4 tracks of the 21 are through running. The north side
tracks and south side tracks could be used better if allowed the LIRR
& NJT to through run instead of terminate at Penn & then reverse out
of the station adding to the delays while the trains cross in front of
one another. By through running Amtrak, LIRR & NJT would better use
the existing tracks and platforms, add capacity and allow for true
regional rail service in the NYC area
Alas, I have never been to NYC, but I am full of admiration for your
train operations people who have to get all the trains from such a
large station funnelled down through just two exit tracks to the west.
Also it appears from diagrams that Grand Central Station had until
recently only four exit tracks to cope with all the traffic from
40-odd platform faces. By way of comparison, London's two biggest
stations, Waterloo and Victoria (both termini), have respectively 24
and 19 platform faces, but they each have 8 exit tracks before the
routes start to diverge, and the next biggest, Liverpool Street (17
platform faces) has 6 exit tracks. Yet there still seem to be frequent
operational difficulties causing much frustration for travellers!
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