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Posted by Broadway Lion on Mon May 22 22:09:52 2006, in response to Re: LIRR East Side Access, posted by J trainloco on Mon May 22 14:06:04 2006.  GCT has underused tracks. Penn is getting an expansion. We *are* Talking about New York City? The one on planet Earth? Well GCT is a *Terminal* which means inefficency, it means that trains must be *stored* there all day, until it is time for the evening rush. The *Might* be under used, in as much as they do not carry the load that LIRR platforms do at NYP, but by golly, there is a train parked on every one of them. That is why the LIRR *is* building new tracks on a new deeper third level under GCT. OTOH: There *IS NO* new construction at NYP. None. Nada. Zip. They are building a *station* house NOT a track plant. Not an inch of new track, not an inch of new platform. Just some new stairways and a new waiting room. That is all. Maybe they will be able to use Platform A for passengers, but that is the extent of it. (That's the old diagonal mail platform that the post office used to use when they still used trains.) Go down the subway steps at 33rd and 8th Ave on the south west corner. Find steps on the West side of the avenue that go *UP* to the "LIRR" platforms. You will find yourself up on a bridge, with steps down to the LIRR platforms (but not to the AMTK or NJT platforms. Look to the west and tell me what you see. You will see existing AMTK and NJT platforms, and beyond that the interlocking plant. You may even see the tunnel mouth (maybe not, I'm not sure where that is), but there IS NO ROOM FOR EXPANSION. 
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