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Metro-North’s planned Bronx expansion, including four new stations and direct service to Penn Station, has been delayed by at least three years. According to the New York Times , the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) this week said the project will likely not be completed until 2030, and blamed Amtrak for refusing to close its tracks to allow work to proceed on schedule. MTA officials proposed an alternative plan to open three of the four planned stations and deliver roughly half of the anticipated service by 2027, the year the agency originally slated the entire project for completion.

First announced in 2014, the $2.9 billion “ Penn Access ” project seeks to expand Metro-North service in the Bronx, which currently runs through four ne

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