A last minute hurdle could delay the MTA’s long-stalled $11.6 billion East Side Access project to bring LIRR trains into a new station beneath Grand Central Terminal.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.A last minute hurdle could delay the MTA’s long-stalled $11.6 billion East Side Access project to bring Long Island Rail Road trains into a new station beneath Grand Central Terminal.
In a letter obtained by Gothamist, the MTA last month told the feds a mandatory safety feature that automatically prevents trains from entering the wrong tunnels would not be installed on time, and asked for anThe safety technology will not be in place on the MTA’s trains “before LIRR’s commencement of its East Side Access passenger service and the opening of the Grand Central Madison tunnels,” the MTA’s letter reads.
But the new technology the MTA seeks to delay would automatically apply the brakes if a train is on the wrong tracks.at Spuyten Duyvil in which a Metro-North engineer fell asleep as his train sped around a corner and derailed. The LIRR and Metro-North now have in place positive train control, or PTC, which automatically stops trains when they move too fast.Photo by MTA / Patrick Cashin
A delay would be a major embarrassment to the agency, which has insisted the project is on time and on budget, at least since MTA Chairman Janno Lieber took over the project as head of capital construction in 2017.
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