"Their people don't show up,"
"We can't get work done and the people in Co-Op City are waiting for a goddamn train and it's outrageous and it's been a problem from the start of that project."
"The first year of the Penn Access project, Amtrak didn't give us one outage that they promised,"
"Not one."
Penn Access plans to add four Metro-North stations in the Bronx and run service over the Hell Gate Bridge to Penn Station, extending West Side access. Much of the route uses Amtrak-owned tracks, requiring Amtrak to grant track outages for MTA crews to perform construction. Amtrak crews repeatedly failed to provide promised outages, blocking work and causing chronic delays. The $3.1 billion project began in 2022 with an initial 2027 opening estimate; the completion date is now at least 2028 and may be delayed further. Federal and local agencies have clashed over related project control and scheduling for tunnel repairs.
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