Influential advocacy group says
scrapping Penn South is a mistake but agrees big fixes are a must
scrapping Penn South is a mistake but agrees big fixes are a must
Joe Anuta reports for
Crain’s:
Crain’s:
The Regional Plan
Association is pushing back on a Manhattan think tank’s proposal for fixing
Penn Station and improving rail transit throughout the region.
Association is pushing back on a Manhattan think tank’s proposal for fixing
Penn Station and improving rail transit throughout the region.
ReThink Studio presented a vision last week to make Penn Station a through stop by modifying the
Gateway tunnel project. By scrapping a $7 billion part of that plan to raze a Manhattan block and add new tracks to the south of the crowded
transit hub, the group argues that money could be freed up to build new rail
stations in Secaucus, N.J.; Sunnyside, Queens; and Port Morris in the Bronx
that would connect the regional commuter lines with relatively minor additions
to existing tracks. That change would open up all sorts of additional transit and economic-development
projects.
RPA, which is set to release its own sweeping vision for the tristate area this
fall, said on Tuesday that nixing Penn Station South would be a mistake.
“We don’t believe … that the existing tracks alone are enough to meet
demand,” RPA head Tom Wright wrote
in a blog post. “Growing service demand can only be
accommodated by increasing the number of tracks and platforms to accommodate
through running service.”
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