Penn Station must expand to increase flow of trains
Study on doubling NY Penn Station capacity finds no current options meet the goal
A new report on the feasibility of doubling the capacity of New York’s Penn Station without expanding the station’s footprint has found that none of the four concepts presented would meet the goal.
Increased train capacity at Penn Station would require expansion, study says
Three major transit agencies say Penn Station needs to be expanded if they want to increase train capacity. That's according to a new study conducted by the MTA, Amtrak and NJ Transit.
Penn Station must expand to increase flow of trains: Amtrak study
A joint Amtrak, NJ Transit and MTA analysis released Wednesday indicates that the planned doubling of train capacity into Penn Station will likely require an expansion of the facility beyond its current boundaries.
Study: Penn Station needs to expand to accommodate Gateway Project
A new study says Penn Station would need to expand in order to accommodate Amtrak's Gateway Tunnel project, which would build a second tunnel across the Hudson by 2035.
These Penn Station expansion plans should be rejected, study says
Four ideas to reduce the rush hour crush on New York Penn Stations narrow platforms and accommodate the additional trains that the new $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnels will bring failed to make the grade,
Penn Station needs expansion to boost train capacity, new report concludes
The only way to increase train capacity at Penn Station is to expand the Midtown Manhattan transit hub, a new report concludes. This week Amtrak, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and NJ Transit released "Doubling Trans-Hudson Train Capacity at New York Penn Station,
Amtrak studies expansion of Penn Station to improve commute
Officials are looking for improvements but projects are more than a decade down the line.
Penn Station Takes Up Two Blocks. Railroads Say They Must Have More.
After studying other ways to double capacity at the busy transit hub, the railroads that use it say they have concluded that ...
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Amtrak, commuter railroads say Penn Station expansion will be required to handle growth
NEW YORK — Penn Station must be expanded to accommodate future traffic, according to Amtrak and the commuter railroads using ...
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New report paves the way for expansion of Penn Station to increase train service
The report dismisses ideas that would provide an alternative to a yearslong proposal to expand Penn Station by tearing down a ...
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Amtrak, MTA, NJ Transit releases ‘Doubling Trans-Hudson Train Capacity at New York Penn Station’ engineering feasibility study
The study concludes none of the four concepts to double train capacity at the station during peak periods achieve the ...
Amtrak train partially derails at NYC's Penn Station
NEW YORK -- An Amtrak train derailed at Penn Station on Thursday afternoon. According to Amtrak, as Train 133 was departing ...
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Penn Station needs to expand, study says
Amtrak, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and NJ TRANSIT released an engineering feasibility study, that analyzes ...
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Penn Station Needs Expansion to Realize Dream of NJ-Long Island Service, Railroads Claim
A new report helps justify Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and the MTA's long-sought push for a larger train station.