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Originally Posted by Johninwestbury
Actually NJ Transit and LIRR share the same delay issues because of Penn station and it's trackage (on LIRR thats west of Harold, on NJT that's east of Secaucus and NE Corridor), which is owned and operated by Amtrak. They will always delay commuter trains for Amtrak trains. And then there's the lack of tracks, less than 20 tracks for Amtrak, NJT, and LIRR. In Grand Central Metro-North has almost 100 tracks to use. Penn station wasn't designed for this heavy use. The solution IMO would be to have LIRR trains use Grand Central. They are working on it but the MTA takes forever to get anything done. NJT just announced plans for a new Hudson river tunnel. Bet that gets built before the LIRR-GCT connection!
The trackage at Metro-North is of superior design, whereas NJ and LI are screwed by lousy Pennsy designs.
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It's supposed to be complete in 2012.
Why not just make more tracks?
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