The station is the nation’s first new major rail terminal in over half a century.
New York’s Grand Central Madison Station is now in full operation, according to an article in Mass Transit Magazine. “The new schedules provide increased service levels by 41 percent and offer direct access to Midtown east, provide more frequent, reliable service, including in Queens and Brooklyn, and true reverse-peak service on the Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma Branches for the first time.”
The new station is designed to improve service and connections and reduce overcrowding at Penn Station. The project is partly funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and “is the first major new rail terminal to open in the United States in 67 years and the first extension of the LIRR in 112 years since service began to Penn Station in 1910.”
The new schedules add 500 station stops in Brooklyn and Queens and the ability to transfer directly between the Long Island Railroad and Metro-North Railroad on a single ticket.
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Alabama: Trump Terminates Settlements for Black Communities Harmed By Raw Sewage
Trump deemed the landmark civil rights agreement “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy.”
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Los Angeles County Invests in Wildfire Recovery for Parks, Trails, and Open Space
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Republican sponsor hopes the FAIR plan would be “a true market of last resort.”
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