Union Tpke Posted January 17, 2020 Share #1 Posted January 17, 2020 Screen Shot 2020-01-17 at 3.29.27 PM by Union Turnpike, on Flickr Screen Shot 2020-01-17 at 3.29.40 PM by Union Turnpike, on Flickr Screen Shot 2020-01-17 at 3.29.46 PM by Union Turnpike, on Flickr 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobtehpanda Posted January 18, 2020 Share #2 Posted January 18, 2020 It's not that bad. Penn Station has extremely narrow platforms, and as a result, has poor vertical circulation. In my experiences, the non-main platform at Penn Station can often take a full three minutes to fully empty one trainload. There's enough space in Penn Station to consolidate the platforms and tracks into wider, more capable platforms, but with the current setup you can't get from today's layout to the better one without massive disruptions. Building a Penn South, as expensive as it is, is one way to get around that; in the same way that Gateway will be the only two-tracks operating while they upgrade the other North River Tunnels, these platforms will be able to take loads off of the existing platforms so that they can be modified. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted January 18, 2020 Share #3 Posted January 18, 2020 33 minutes ago, bobtehpanda said: It's not that bad. Penn Station has extremely narrow platforms, and as a result, has poor vertical circulation. In my experiences, the non-main platform at Penn Station can often take a full three minutes to fully empty one trainload. There's enough space in Penn Station to consolidate the platforms and tracks into wider, more capable platforms, but with the current setup you can't get from today's layout to the better one without massive disruptions. Building a Penn South, as expensive as it is, is one way to get around that; in the same way that Gateway will be the only two-tracks operating while they upgrade the other North River Tunnels, these platforms will be able to take loads off of the existing platforms so that they can be modified. Depending on how everything's set up, it could allow for easier through-running (though I honestly have very few ideas I remotely approve of in that department, considering the rail systems on both sides of the Hudson). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobtehpanda Posted January 18, 2020 Share #4 Posted January 18, 2020 18 minutes ago, Lex said: Depending on how everything's set up, it could allow for easier through-running (though I honestly have very few ideas I remotely approve of in that department, considering the rail systems on both sides of the Hudson). Even if the new platforms directly didn't, the ability to make the existing platforms wider once the new platforms can take the load of the existing ones, would make through running more feasible. Only clearing one train every 3 minutes is not going to lead to effective through-running operations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted January 19, 2020 Share #5 Posted January 19, 2020 Can someone give me an ELI5 version of what they're planning to do with Penn Station? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checkmatechamp13 Posted January 19, 2020 Share #6 Posted January 19, 2020 14 hours ago, B35 via Church said: Can someone give me an ELI5 version of what they're planning to do with Penn Station? Someone else can jump in with additional info, but I think the main thing is that they will add 8 extra tracks (and presumably some platforms) to the South of the existing station 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY1635 Posted January 20, 2020 Share #7 Posted January 20, 2020 On 1/19/2020 at 1:29 PM, checkmatechamp13 said: Someone else can jump in with additional info, but I think the main thing is that they will add 8 extra tracks (and presumably some platforms) to the South of the existing station It's an engineering nightmare. It's literally IND and BMT in railroad form. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted January 21, 2020 Share #8 Posted January 21, 2020 28 minutes ago, NY1635 said: It's an engineering nightmare. It's literally IND and BMT in railroad form. What. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Floyd Fan Posted January 21, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 21, 2020 Here's a link from the RPA that provides some context to the 'rationale' behind the plan for NY Penn (Penn Sta South). It contains a decent graphic showing some of the different parts of NY Penn). http://fourthplan.org/action/penn-station 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobtehpanda Posted January 21, 2020 Share #10 Posted January 21, 2020 On 1/18/2020 at 8:10 PM, B35 via Church said: Can someone give me an ELI5 version of what they're planning to do with Penn Station? Blow up 7th and 8th between 30th and 31st to build eight more platforms. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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