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Originally Posted by CIA
Fancy new train hall, but same old shit at platform level. Lipstick on a pig?
Would love to see what's being done in ways of capacity improvements.
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Lipstick would be applying new paint and calling it a day. Necessary passenger improvements aren't trivial; nothing to sneeze at. In any case, these two goals aren't mutually exclusive: we can have both.
Capacity improvements are largely administrative (refusal to plan for through running) and infrastructure (MSG makes platform level improvements hard.
The Dolans think they have a god-given right to remain, and Cuomo doesn't seem interested in pushing the issue, for now.
Clearing out the clutter that is the current Amtrak/LIRR ticketing facilities is a worthwhile step; most importantly, I fail to see how it precludes future track-level improvements. If anything, increasing revenue and better utilizing space would make future improvements simpler.