Amtrak’s long-term closure of one of the tunnel tubes (Amtrak calls them “lines”) under the East River between Penn Station ...

The mile-long East River Mountain Tunnel on Interstate 77 opened on Dec. 20, 1974 after five years, four months and 13 days of work. ... News. Today's news; US; Politics; World; Tech.

Amtrak’s 114-year-old East River tunnels, which are used by hundreds of Long Island Rail Road trains rolling in and out of Manhattan's Penn Station every day, are slated to undergo years of ...

The lengthy repairs will reduce the train capacity of the East River Tunnel by 25%. And that has MTA officials and Gov. Kathy Hochul worried that project complications could snarl commutes.

The MTA will be swapping the East River crossing points of the F and M trains, in a move meant to simplify the route across a ...

Rare look inside Amtrak's East River Tunnels damaged in Superstorm Sandy 01:55. Before Amtrak starts its $1.6 billion project to repair the East River Tunnels damaged in Superstorm Sandy, CBS News ...

Amtrak will delay the start of the construction on the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation project by two weeks after learning the Long Island Rail Road’s (LIRR) East-Bound reroute project is delayed.

The MTA is urging Amtrak to avoid a tunnel outage by carrying out the work on nights and weekends, like the MTA did for repairs to the L train East River tunnel in 2019. Hochul made the same ...

Ninety feet below the East River, Amtrak’s 110 year-old train tunnels are slowly filling with salty water dripping on high-voltage cables as steel is nearly corroded to dust. Above ground, heads ...

NEW YORK — A full shutdown of one of the tubes of the East River Tunnel in New York City began Friday, impacting Amtrak services in and out of the city. Amtrak announced in February a new train ...