Andy Byford is coming back to New York, where he has been tapped to oversee development in and around the city’s Penn Station. New Yorkers bestowed the moniker “Train Daddy” on Byford
On March 23, the New York Daily News ran an editorial about the Gateway Program, which is building new infrastructure in New York City and New Jersey on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC).
In 1995, one of the alternatives of the original Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) Project would have developed a track connection for New Jersey Transit (NJT) trains to go to Grand Central Terminal (GCT) on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan. New Jersey riders, especially commuters whose offices are nearby, would have enjoyed convenient access to them for the first time. That alternative was eliminated in 2003, and the means for delivering new Manhattan capacity was downgraded to a stub-end deep-cavern station 20 stories below ground.
