MTA Chair Janno Lieber on Monday said Amtrak keeps delaying work on a new transit line in the Bronx because their crews won’t show up to work.

During a news conference, Lieber became visibly incensed when he was asked about the MTA’s ongoing Penn Access project, which aims to bring four new Metro-North stations to the Bronx. The new service would take riders over the Hell Gate Bridge and end at Penn Station, giving Metro-North riders access to Manhattan’s West Side for the first time.

Much of the route runs along existing tracks owned by Amtrak, including the stretch over the bridge. Lieber said the national railroad has sparked chronic construction delays because its crews won’t give MTA workers access to the tracks.

“Their people don't show up,” he said. “We can't get work done and th

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