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Penn Station is still confusing and needs improvement
amNY has an article about how Penn Station New York is still a terrible transportation hub for riders/pedestrians to navigate. While there’s no new information in the article, it is good that this topic is still being brought up by … Continue reading
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Amtrak’s National Train Day at New York Penn Station
Amtrak will be kicking off their 2010 National Train Day celebration with special events at New York Penn Station today beginning at 12:30 PM. Hopefully the celebration won’t be ruined by things that make the Big Board look like this:
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Free vitaminwater10 at Penn Station this morning
As I exited the rat hole that is the current Penn Station, I was offered my choice of four new flavors of glaceau’s vitaminwater10 “low cal nutrient enhanced water beverage”. I went for “recoup”, which is “peach-mandarin”. Don’t recall what … Continue reading
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MTA Metro-North Railroad Renews Study of Access to Penn Station
Metro-North has announced that they are FINALLY reviving their Penn Station Access Study. The first part of study, formally called the Metro-North Penn Station Access Major Investment Study/Draft Environmental Impact Statement (MIS/DEIS), was carried out from 1999 to 2002. Since … Continue reading
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New Street Entrance To NJ Transit Concourse Opens At New York Penn Station
NJ Transit finally opened yesterday its new entrance to Penn Station. Summary info from the website: The new entrance is located at the corner of 7th Avenue and West 31st Street at street level and is adjacent to the NJ … Continue reading
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MTA too busy tailgating to notice Press Release screw up
MTA officials were too busy tailgating with NJ Transit officials at Penn Station New York today to notice the significant and glaring error in their all important press release. The press release, meant to announce the beginning of both LIRR/MNCR+NJT … Continue reading
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Tagged football, Giants, Jets, lirr, Long Island Rail Road, Long Island Railroad, meadowlands, Metro-North Railroad, MNCR, MNR, mta, new jersey transit, NJ Transit, njt, penn station, train
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LIRR to offer joint ticket to Meadowlands Sports Complex Rail Station
You can now buy and use a single train ticket to ride from stations on the Long Island Rail Road all the way to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey, home of Giants Stadium, a new football stadium to … Continue reading
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Tagged football, Giants, Jets, lirr, Long Island Rail Road, Long Island Railroad, meadowlands, Metro-North Railroad, MNCR, MNR, mta, new jersey transit, new york city, NJ Transit, njt, penn station, train
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Metro-North brochure for Meadowlands Rail Service
Metro-North Railroad has created a new brochure to explain their part of the direct service that they are planning to run with New Jersey Transit this fall. It is admittedly a complicated task to convey all of the options and … Continue reading
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Tagged football, Giants, Jets, meadowlands, Metro-North Railroad, MNCR, MNR, new york, NJ Transit, njt, penn station, train
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Penn Station receives escalator delivery
Walking past the construction site Monday, I saw that a door was open, allowing me to see and photograph (with cell phone camera) the empty space where a staircase once was, and where an additional escalator will hopefully soon be. … Continue reading
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Tagged amtrak, entrance, escalator, new york, new york city, new york penn station, nyc, penn station, penn station new york, psny
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NYCT finally posts the Service Changes poster for the G line extension
As announced here on the Railfan Window Blog first, the G line extension to Church Avenue is still scheduled to begin on-time on July 5, 2009. Here is the Service Changes poster than New York City Transit finally uploaded to … Continue reading
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Tagged G line, mta, new york city, New York City Transit, nyc, nyct, penn station, subway, train
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