• lickmysword@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like a decent thought and Amtrak is all “that’s too expensive!” But for improving the infrastructure they should either eat the cost or get aid for it.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, Byford is 100% right (as usual) in saying this part of the plan is completely unnecessary.

      As someone who uses Penn station every day, there are already a ton of infrastructure improvements in progress, and they will be plenty sufficient without demolishing block 780 (btw 30th & 31st Streets and 7th and 8th Ave). That block also holds the one remaining piece of the original Penn station and a beautiful and historic church, so it would be a real shame to demolish it.

      Here’s another article that explains and shows renderings of some of the $1.5b in improvements that are already funded and approved.