![]() The concourse stretches from Seventh Avenue near the 1/2/3 subway to Eighth Avenue near the A/C/E subway and now features 9,500 square feet of programmable color-changing LED ceiling lights. The LIRR concourse at the nation's busiest transit hub nearly doubled in width, from 30 feet to 57, while ceilings were raised to more than double its height - now reaching 18 feet. It's certainly wider and higher, for sure. ![]() ![]() "This project shows the MTA is ready to finish transforming the crummy terminal New Yorkers have been suffering with for 50-plus years into a world-class facility," MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Tuesdayįive years after New York's former governor predicted a " summer of hell" amid extensive, long-awaited track work at an over-crowded Penn Station, the woman who replaced him was on hand Tuesday to debut a new Long Island Rail Road passenger concourse that the MTA vows will be brighter, bigger and less cramped than the infernal bottleneck of the Andrew Cuomo days.Construction of the concourse is one of three major projects transforming the experience of LIRR riders in the coming months, along with the opening of service to Grand Central Madison and the opening of a new Main Line third track the total cost of the corridor is about $559 million.It stretches from Seventh Avenue near the 1/2/3 subway to Eighth Avenue near the A/C/E subway The newly unveiled LIRR concourse at Penn Station nearly doubled in width, from 30 feet to 57, while ceilings were raised to 18 feet.
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