The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ’s $2.9 billion effort to link Metro-North to Penn Station will take at least three years longer than originally planned, largely because of Amtrak’s failure to deliver on its promised level of cooperation in the megaproject, MTA officials said Monday.

The project, which was originally pegged for completion in March 2027, now won’t be finished until the second quarter of 2030 at the earliest, and could drag on into 2032 if Amtrak, which owns much of the track infrastructure, doesn’t get its act together, MTA officials said Monday in a Manhattan presentation to board members.

"This is the MTA trying not to repeat East Side Access ," MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said, referring to the delay-plagued project to link the Long Island Rail Road

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