![]() ![]() All service ends in Manhattan, preventing trains from traveling through from one part of the region to the other, and reducing the capacity of the system overall.Many assets-from stations and signals to tracks and interlockings-are well past their useful life or don’t meet modern standards.It poorly serves job centers outside of Manhattan, leaves many places without any rail service at all, isn’t configured to serve today’s 24-hour, multi-directional travel patterns, and is straining to serve the number of riders it has today, much less tomorrow. This aging system was designed to get people in and out of Manhattan when the metropolitan area was less than half the size it is today. The region’s three commuter railroads-Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and New Jersey Transit-are an amalgamation of rail lines built largely by private railroads more than 100 years ago. ![]()
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