Amtrak, the MTA, and New Jersey Transit say they cannot expand train capacity at Penn Station without enlarging the terminal's Midtown footprint and, by extension, demolishing several blocks of Midtown Manhattan.
prepared by consulting firms WSP Global and FXCollaborative, the three railroads present several proposals to expand capacity at the widely-maligned Midtown train terminal to address an expected surge in ridership over the next several decades — only to reject them all as infeasible, necessitating further study on how best to enlarge the cavernous station’s footprint.
“The study really aims to answer the question: can we achieve the capacity goals…within the existing footprint of Penn Station? Spoiler alert, we cannot,” said Petra Messick, Amtrak’s senior director for the Gateway Program. “What we found is that we will need to expand beyond the boundaries of Penn to reach the 48 trains per hour trans-Hudson capacity goal.
Turvey’s group has studied through-running for years, and he says it would not require such a dramatic drawdown of Penn’s transit operations as the railroads contend.
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