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Originally Posted by Crawford
There is no station in the western world as busy as Penn. And I can't think of any major European station with fewer tracks than Penn, even though none have similar ridership. For example, Frankfurt HBF, probably the most important station in Europe, has 30 tracks, but only 450k daily users.
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You want to tell me Les Halles is used less intensely than Penn?
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The capability is the tunnel. It makes total sense.
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Which is not funded and the future of which is highly dependent on federal level politics. Also neither of the new portal bridge projects are funded either which are required to utilize new Hudson tubes.
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ESA was always planned in concert with capacity additions to the east, just like Penn improvements are planned in concert with capacity additions to the west
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ESA was supposed to be in service a decade ago and looks sketchy to make the 2022 completion. The Ronkonkoma double track only finished near the end of 2018 and the third main is scheduled (lol) for 2022. Had it been completed on time the ESA terminal would have sat there not much raising overall LIRR capacity for probably 15 years. What a country.