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The East Side Access project was based on regional planning proposals that were first brought up in the 1950s. [2]: 18 (PDF p.21) In March 1954, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) issued a $658 million construction program.
The MTA estimated that East Side Access will be complete in early 2023. [10] [11] By November 2018, two of three East Side Access tunnel portals had been built at Harold Interlocking; [12] the remaining portal had been completed by early 2021. [13] Ultimately, East Side Access opened on January 25, 2023. [14]
This quick completion date was a part of the city's unsuccessful 2012 Summer Olympics bid; the Olympics were hosted in London instead. [7] [142] When construction began in 2007, the MTA stated that the new train line would open by the end of 2013. [77] Later in 2007, the MTA gave a completion date of 2014. [143]
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 ...
The $11.1 billion endeavor includes a new 350,000-square-foot passenger terminal under Grand Central that can handle eight trains at a time, doubling the LIRR’s capacity into Manhattan with up ...
In mid-2012, the MTA issued a joint procurement request for the LIRR and Metro-North for a total of up to 676 M9 railcars, set for delivery between 2016 and 2020. [9] On September 18, 2013, Kawasaki Heavy Industries was awarded a nearly $1.8 billion contract for the order, comprising a base order of 92 cars for the LIRR (costing $355 million) with options for an additional 584 cars (304 for ...
ITV Studios is the latest super-indie to bow out from October’s Mipcom market in Cannes — traditionally the largest annual confab for the global TV industry. The production-distribution giant ...
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