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Moynihan Train Hall, Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 2021.
All of the pixels, none of the delays, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362
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Moynihan Train Hall, Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 2021.
All of the pixels, none of the delays, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362
#photography
Adding the Moynihan Hall was a welcome improvement to Penn Station, but didn’t address the main problem, which is insufficient capacity for the number of trains that run through it. There aren’t enough tracks, the platforms are too narrow, and the tunnels entering and leaving the station have too limited capacity. These more fundamental constraints will be much harder to solve, because the underground area around the station is already heavily crowded.
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The Hudson River Tunnel project is moving forward and will fix the primary bottleneck for train travel between NY and NJ by doubling tunnel capacity and adding redundancy. The underground train yard has already been expanded.
Key to improving the traveler experience at Penn Station is the consistent flow of trains so there aren’t crowd back-ups in station areas or platforms.
@NJWookie The new tunnel is essential, but really not sufficient. There just isn’t enough platform space, and that seems unlikely to change.
@[email protected] (Of course, the new tunnel is urgently needed, I’m just saying it won’t fix all the capacity issues, more the reliability issues.)