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The opening of East Side Access saw the LIRR run 41 percent more trains per day, including substantial increases in reverse-peak service. MTA Chair Janno Lieber said that "for the first time we have enough capacity to send trains out to Long Island in the morning, and that means that Long Island businesses can recruit the entire region".
LONG ISLAND, NY — Grand Central Madison — the new, 700,000 sure foot Long Island Rail Road terminal that's nearing completion under Grand Central Terminal and opening up East Side access to ...
According to the MTA's website, the project known as East Side Access will culminate with the opening of Grand Central Madison, a new terminal along Madison Avenue between 43rd and 48th Streets.
The lower level carries Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) trains to Grand Central as part of the East Side Access project. Construction of the 63rd Street Tunnel began in 1969. The tunnel was holed through beneath Roosevelt Island in 1972, but completion of the tunnel and its connections was delayed by the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis. The upper ...
Once the East Side Access project is complete, the LIRR estimates that approximately 45 percent of its Port Washington Branch customers will opt for trains heading to Grand Central with commuting ...
Grand Central Madison. / 40.7542; -73.9770. 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]
However, due to delays in the East Side Access project (which would give LIRR riders a second direct route into Manhattan via the 63rd Street Tunnel), Amtrak later pushed back the start date of the East River Tunnels' reconstruction to 2025, and increased the construction time to four years.
According to the MTA's website, the project known as East Side Access will culminate with the opening of Grand Central Madison, a new terminal along Madison Avenue between 43rd and 48th Streets.