$11.6 billion to shave 100 seconds off LIRR commute.

That's not really true, While the new trains will get you to Grand Central only a little faster than to Penn Station, for any Long Islander works on the East Side, there are huge savings in time getting from the train station to work.

Even if you work AT Grand Central, it will take you about as long to get out of the station as it took to ride the subway from Penn Station to GCT. Not seeing the huge savings.

This project had nothing to do with easing commutes into the city, and everything to do with pork barrel projects for construction and engineering firms and labor unions, which why it was so delayed and billions over budget. Gotta keep the grift going for as long as possible.

It will save you from having to pay for an extra subway ride.

[quote] This project had nothing to do with easing commutes into the city, and everything to do with pork barrel projects for construction and engineering firms and labor unions

Oh stop. The point was to give Long Islanders easier access to the east side of Manhattan and reduce crowding at Penn

Only if you can walk to your destination from Grand Central.

I think this beats the $4 billion shopping mall they built at WTC.

R6, walking or taking the subway from Grand Central to the East Side will be faster, with fewer subway changes.

They could have built the entire Second Ave subway with that money. Or a high-speed rail along the East Coast.

[quote] everything to do with pork barrel projects for construction and engineering firms and labor unions, which why it was so delayed and billions over budget. Gotta keep the grift going for as long as possible.

$11.6 billion? Yeah right.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐠

The project was originally scheduled for completion in 1998. The original estimated cost was $2.8 billion. The final project cost was $14.6 billion. The Boston Globe estimates the Big Dig will ultimately cost $22 billion (with interest) and that it won't be paid for until 2038.

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The 2022 business plan estimates that the full, 500-mile high-speed system between Los Angeles and San Francisco will cost as much as $105 billion, up from $100 billion two years ago. In 2008, when voters approved a bond to help build the railroad, the authority estimated that the system would cost $33 billion.

R10, News Flash!!! major construction costs alot

[quote]costs alot

Oh, fucking dear!

From 2016

Here’s a story about how business gets done at New York’s Penn Station. In the late 1970s, the escalator connecting Tracks 15 and 16 to the concourse sat broken for more than four years because Amtrak, which owns the complex, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, whose Long Island Rail Road trains terminate there, could not agree who should pay to fix it.

The escalator had already stopped working when Amtrak was granted ownership of Penn Station in 1976. The two agencies squabbled for several years over how the $82,000 repair cost should be divided. An initial agreement split the cost 82-18. Amtrak didn’t think that was fair. A subsequent study determined Amtrak should pay 85 percent. In January 1979, the two sides agreed on an 80-20 funding split.

On Friday, March 23, the escalator sprang to life. The next day it broke again.