Recently Columbia University graduate students in journalism, Olivia Manders and Leslie Hart, interviewed PCAC’s Senior Transportation Planner Ellyn Shannon and Metro-North’s Brian Sterman, Director of Long Range Planning, about the possibility of a new rail station near the Columbia campus. They discovered that yes, indeed, a new station at 125th Street is planned when the MNR Hudson Line will offer service to Penn Station on existing tracks used by Amtrak. However, East Side Access, the current $8 billion capital construction project that will bring LIRR riders into a new station under Grand Central Terminal, must first be completed to free up capacity at Penn Station. To see the interview click here.
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