NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) -- A $2.9 billion commuter rail project to connect New York City’s northern suburbs to Penn Station faces a three-year delay, according to the MTA.
The MTA, which oversees the city’s transit network, including the Metro-North Railroad, had planned to finish construction by the end of 2027 to link that commuter line to Manhattan’s Penn Station.
It will now be fully completed in 2030 because Amtrak, which owns the railroad tracks, hasn’t provided sufficient access to their infrastructure to conduct work, Jamie Torres-Springer, the MTA’s head of construction and development, said Monday during an MTA committee meeting.
Metro-North operates out of Grand Central Terminal, providing service to the Bronx, Westchester County and Connecticut. Adding service into Penn Station will increase transit access for an estimated 500,000 Bronx residents, slashing travel time by as much as 50 minutes for them. Some trips to Connecticut will be 73 minutes faster.
MTA is still seeking to get 50% of the new Metro-North service running in 2027, as long as Amtrak works with the transit provider to complete necessary work on time, Torres-Springer said.
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