A withering dispute between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Amtrak could lead to delays in the completion of the Penn Access megaproject bringing Metro-North trains to Penn Station, MTA bigwigs charged Monday.
, creating a more integrated regional rail network in the New York metropolitan area. Work on the project is scheduled for completion by 2027.
Should that dispute go unresolved, the agency is warning the megaproject risks becoming a mega-boondoggle the likes of East Side Access, whose cost ballooned to more than $11 billion and took decades to complete. MTA and Amtrak leadership are currently in talks to clean up the mess, said MTA construction chief Jamie Torres-Springer, with the two currently attempting to gin up a “recovery schedule.” Unable to agree on nights and weekends, the MTA wants Amtrak to commit to a longer-term service outage, possibly as long as eight months, on the line — including the Hell Gate Bridge — starting in March, but hasn’t gotten the thumbs up.
“This is the dynamic that got East Side Access into the hole,” said Lieber. “There’s probably a billion dollars of extra costs in East Side Access, maybe more, from the problems that that project had.”
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