Contractors work on the East Side Access project beneath midtown Manhattan, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, in New York. When completed, the East Side Access will allow the MTA’s Long Island Rail Road passengers to get off on Manhattan’s East Side at Grand Central Terminal from Long Island through a Queens station linked to the 120-foot tunnel. The target completion date is 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A massive new commuter rail project under New York City’s Grand Central Terminal — one of the nation’s largest transportation upgrades — is slowly rolling forward, including a tunnel costing $1 million per foot, the chief engineer said Wednesday.
Read: Tunnel to Grand Central Rolling Along at $1M Per Foot
Once completed, the terminal will cover five city blocks and reach 14 stories deep underneath Grand Central and allow Long Island Rail Road passengers to get off on Manhattan’s east side. For now, they must travel all the way to Penn Station on the west side.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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