The MTA has completed a new traction power substation as part of the East Side Access project to bring LIRR service to Grand Central Terminal (GCT). The new G02 substation is part of East Side Access’ effort to modernize the infrastructure throughout Harold Interlocking. G02 is one of three new…
In Manhattan and Queens, the ESA team is installing track and third rail for future Long Island Rail Road trains to run from Harold Interlocking in Queens to the new terminal under Grand Central. Approximately 40 percent of track has been installed throughout the alignment. To install the new track,…
East Side Access contractor Schindler Elevator Corporation continues to install escalators between the future Long Island Rail Road passenger concourse and the terminal, which has a total of four passenger escalator wellways and 17 high-rise escalators. Each escalator wellway aligns to a cross street above the concourse at 45th, 46th,…
On a plain wall between tracks 113 and 114, a plywood door separates old from new at Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. It is the inconspicuous entrance to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $11.1 billion East Side Access project — currently among the largest construction undertakings in the U.S.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced that the work to upgrade the signal system in Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside, Queens, has been completed, providing an immediate benefit to Long Island Rail Road customers and clearing the way for the start of the final East Side Access construction contract to…
Billions of dollars in infrastructure investments being made now on the LIRR could transform how Long Islanders live and commute within the next five years, experts said. From new trains to new stations to new tracks, several big-ticket improvements long debated for the Long Island Rail Road are now approved,…
This is a combination of older photos of the East Side Access construction project, dating as far back as 2010, renderings of what the project will look like when it’s completed, and photographs taken during a recent tour of the project. The photos include scenes from the complex rail junction…
Long Island has been “left behind” as New York City’s economy has surged, but the $11.2 billion effort linking the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal and other rail projects will be “game changers” for the region, RXR Realty’s Scott Rechler told a gathering of real estate executives Wednesday morning. The…
MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) this month will test a new signal system as part of its East Side Access project to connect to Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The tests will be performed at the Harold Interlocking in Queens, New York. Based on microprocessor technology with…
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