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Originally Posted by nito
Forget Grand Central. New York Penn connects the NJT Northeast Corridor Line (for Newark) and LIRR Main Line (for JFK). Spurs on these lines (including to the LIRR Port Washington branch line for La Guardia), and you’d have one-seat rides from New York Penn to the three primary airports of New York.
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Once again, you cannot do that. The Penn tunnels are at capacity. The Penn platforms are at capacity. If you want a JFK to Penn direct link you would have to build a new tunnel. Good luck with that.
There are plans to run direct trains from JFK and LGA, but not until ESA is completed, and to Grand Central, which has capacity.
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Originally Posted by nito
East Side Access and Penn Station South are incredibly ill thought out projects and would never get off the ground in Paris or London.
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I don't know what this means. Paris and London both have massive rail projects which aren't dissimilar, and both ESA and Penn South are desperately needed projects.
Penn South is, by far, the most important transit infrastructure project in the U.S.