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This budget included a $1.6 billion LIRR connection to Grand Central, as well as several subway extensions. [30] The project's final environmental impact assessment (FEIS) was released in March 2001. [31]: 1 [a] The FEIS reviewed two key options for bringing LIRR service to Grand Central. The first option was to connect the tunnels to the ...
Grand Central Madison is a commuter rail terminal for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Part of the East Side Access project, the new terminal started construction in 2008 and opened on January 25, 2023. [ 5 ]
Grand Central Madison (GCM) – Trains that travel along the Main Line to Grand Central Madison via East Side Access, which includes the lower level of the 63rd Street Tunnel and a new tunnel under Park Avenue. [2] Due to clearance restrictions in the tunnel, the C3 bilevel cars cannot access the terminal. [2]
A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to ...
The LIRR has an amalgam of different station house designs across its system. Many station houses built during the same time period (e.g., Mineola and Manhasset; 1920s), or as part of the same project (e.g., Central Islip and Deer Park; 1987 Hicksville–Ronkonkoma electrification project), share similar or identical designs.
The East Side Access project built a LIRR spur to Grand Central Terminal that will run in part via the lower level of the existing 63rd Street Tunnel. [19] The East Side Access project added a new eight-track terminal called Grand Central Madison underneath the existing Grand Central Terminal. [19]
Most service is provided to Grand Central Terminal by local Harlem Line trains from and to North White Plains. These trains run at least every half-hour. However, during the reverse peak (outbound mornings and inbound evenings), express trains to and from Southeast also serve the station. On early weekend mornings and late evenings, a few ...
Grand Central Terminal served intercity trains until 1991, when Amtrak consolidated its New York operations at nearby Penn Station. [N 2] Grand Central covers 48 acres (19 ha) and has 44 platforms, more than any other railroad station in the world. Its platforms, all below ground, serve 30 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower.