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Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running
Through-running at Penn Station would transform regional rail in NYC, and we have the infrastructure to do it. However, in a recent report, Amtrak made fundamentally flawed arguments pushing its unnecessary and expensive Penn Expansion project.
ETA's analysis, based on an examination of best practices from peer cities across the globe, shows that today's Penn Station can handle the ridership that Gateway will bring if the region simply changes the way it operates its trains—and it can do so without spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. For instance, it assumes that NJ Transit’s Erie lines and Metro-North’s west-of-Hudson service will remain unelectrified, despite a cost to electrify of about $750 million, using the busy Southern Transcon as a benchmark[ FN1], in order to justify spending $16.7 billion to expand Penn Station. Compared to the situations of Paris, Munich, and other places where through-running involved complex construction, Penn Station only requires modest modifications within its existing footprint to handle the increase in passenger traffic expected from the opening of the Gateway tunnels and modernization of the Northeast Corridor.
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