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Originally Posted by M1EK
By the way, New York is also spending BILLIONS of dollars to move the LIRR terminus to Grand Central - because even in New York, even there, yes, even in New York, a lot of potential passengers aren't using the LIRR because of the transfer requirement for most passengers. The justification for going to GC is all about walking distance to offices (something like 70% versus 25% at Penn).
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True for the future, and then only for a small percentage of the total number of LIRR trains. But the roots of the LIRR have been in existence since 1832. Looks like one terminating station in Manhattan has done fine for almost 180 years. The subways first started running under Manhattan in 1904, 70 years later.
Did Austin even exist in 1832?