Andy Byford, tasked with overhauling Penn Station, on his plans to redo "the ugly duckling" of mass transit

Andy Byford, the former MTA chief, is back in New York with a new role and mission: to rebuild Penn Station​, the busiest ...
Engineering News-Record

Amtrak Disputes MTA on Penn Station Access Delay, Demands Retraction

Penn Station’s west entrance in Manhattan, shown earlier this year. The $2.9-billion Penn Station Access project—aimed at linking Metro-North’s New Haven Line to the hub through four new Bronx ...
abc7NY

Penn Station expansion plan would add 8 tracks, Cuomo says

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to expand the number of tracks with a goal of increasing capacity by 40 percent at Penn Station. "Twenty one tracks are not enough ...
abc7NY

Gov. Hochul unveils her scaled-down vision to improve Penn Station

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Penn Station serves more people in a day than all three NYC airports and all that wear and tear is taking a toll. On Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul outlined her plan to spruce up the ...
The American Prospect

Another Rail Headache for New York and New Jersey, Courtesy of Trump

The Penn Station project aims to select a master developer by next spring and break ground by 2027. Credit: Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images One day, New York metro area transit riders ...
Trains

Trains.com Recommended Reading: From Penn Station to the man in Seat 61

Our latest edition of the occasional Trains.com Recommended Reading feature is spanning the globe, as the old ABC Wide World ...
City & State New York

Editor’s note: Acela 2.0 makes historic debut at Penn Station

New Yorkers joined Amtrak employees to welcome the arrival of the railroad’s first official passenger run of its second-generation high-speed train at the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station Thursday.