New York’s criticism of Amtrak intensified shortly after Duffy announced in mid-April that it would be in charge of Penn Station, a move that sidelined the MTA and Lieber, who has his own particular ...

A long-delayed plan to fix the storm-damaged East River Tunnels, used by the LIRR and other railroads, will begin next year with $1.3 billion in federal funding that will cover roughly the entire ...

A 25-foot crack in an East River tunnel wall is seen in this 2014 photo. Credit: HNTB Corp. By ALFONSO A. CASTILLO [email protected] @alfonsoreports October 25, 2015 ...

The mile-long East River Mountain Tunnel on Interstate 77 opened on Dec. 20, 1974 after five years, four months and 13 days of work. ... News. Today's news; US; Politics; World; Tech.

The MTA will be swapping the East River crossing points of the F and M trains, in a move meant to simplify the route across a ...

The MTA is urging Amtrak to avoid a tunnel outage by carrying out the work on nights and weekends, like the MTA did for repairs to the L train East River tunnel in 2019. Hochul made the same ...

Amtrak will delay the start of the construction on the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation project by two weeks after learning the Long Island Rail Road’s (LIRR) East-Bound reroute project is delayed.

Amtrak’s 114-year-old East River tunnels, which are used by hundreds of Long Island Rail Road trains rolling in and out of Manhattan's Penn Station every day, are slated to undergo years of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Repairs on Superstorm Sandy-damaged rail tunnels used by trains linking New York with the whole Northeast Corridor could cause a service nightmare. Longer closures to do the work ...

MINEOLA — Amtrak will use part of the $86 million it has received in Superstorm Sandy federal recovery funding to improve maintenance of four East River tunnels that carry hundreds of thousands ...