New York City: East Side Access On Track for 2022 Opening
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May 28, 2021 Commuter/Regional, High Performance, Intercity, M/W, News, Passenger
ESA On Track for 22 Opening
Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Civil construction of MTA Long Island Rail Roads East Side Access (ESA) project has wrapped up, with third rail to be electrified and test trains to run this summer before LIRR service to Grand Central Terminal begins in December 2022.
Construction of the $11 billion ESA projectoriginally conceived in the 1960s and developed in the 1990sbegan in 2006 (see below for a video overview). It includes a new 350,000-square-foot passenger terminal under Grand Central Terminal, which currently serves MTA Metro-North Railroad and MTA New York City Transit. The new connection will double LIRRs capacity into Manhattan, with up to 24 trains per hour, and cut travel time for Queens, N.Y., riders by 40 minutes per day, according to New York MTA.
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