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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 25 March 2014 - 01:59 PM

Mass Transit Magazine, 3/25/14:

The MTA's beleaguered East Side Access project to link the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal could get a new estimated completion date and budget in coming months, officials said Monday.

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So they are promising that they will soon announce the date that they will announce the date of completion. I don't feel any closer to the truth.


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Posted 03 October 2015 - 01:38 PM

 

 

Amtrak's lack of cooperation will delay East Side Access, MTA says

The problem-plagued East Side Access megaproject to link the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal will be even further delayed without better cooperation from Amtrak, which has been busy with construction work of its own, MTA officials said.

Critical construction work planned at the busy Harold Interlocking in Queens has fallen months behind schedule because Amtrak, which shares use of the rail junction, has not provided the necessary workers or track time, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said at a recent meeting of their capital program oversight committee.

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Posted 03 October 2015 - 03:25 PM

Newsday is not a reader-friendly website since it requires membership or for the reader to be a customer of Cablevision/Optimum, which I am. But most won't be able to read the whole item.   Here, then, is an article from CBS New York, which everyone should be able to see.

 


MTA Spokesperson: East Side Access Project Stalled By Amtrak

 

The East Side Access project is delayed once again.

 

As WCBS 880’s Sophia Hall reported, the construction work planned at the busy Harold Interlocking in Queens to help build the East Side Access project, which will connect the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Station, has been delayed for at least a few more months.

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Posted 05 November 2015 - 12:40 PM

Second Avenue Sagas, 11/5/15:

 


Inside East Side Access: A new LIRR connection but at what cost?

 

While walking with New York City’s transit reporters through the future home of the East Side Access terminal underneath Grand Central yesterday, the same question came up over and over again: Is this thing worth it?

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Posted 05 November 2015 - 06:18 PM

New York Post, 11/5:
 

 

Take a sneak peak at the new LIRR tunnels to Grand Central

 

These massive new train tunnels deep beneath Manhattan will one day make the lives of more than 150,000 Long Island commuters a whole lot easier.

 

The MTA gave reporters a peek at the progress in the long-delayed, $10.1 billion East Side Access project, which will connect the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal.

 

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The MTA project — which had been scheduled for completion in 2009, before delays hit — is now 60 percent completed.

 

But the major troubles are now in the past and the authority is hoping the Grand Central connection will be open for riders by 2022, said Michael Horodniceanu, president of the MTA’s Capital Construction Co.

 

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