41% for Grand Central vs 59% for Penn Station
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The immediate reactions were super silly, judging the success of GCM off it’s first few months and new schedule. It gives the LIRR great bones to work with, but now they need to step up and properly stock their fleet and make a schedule that can actually optimize the new capacity. If that happens would not be surprised to see this go almost 50/50
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Interesting thread on the continuing degradation of service to Grand Central Madison
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They installed seats on the mezzanine level in response to passenger complaints.
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People think they can engineer their way out of homelessness. Does not work for that.
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There’s almost as much passenger seating space in that one photo than there is in all of Grand Central Metro North (which doesn’t really have seating outside of the stationmaster’s office unless you count the tables and chairs in the dining course). Metro North passengers just end up sitting on the floor.
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It sounds like a bad joke…
Despite MTA promise, Grand Central Madison still doesn’t have a restaurant 2 years in - Gothamist
Nearly two years after the debut of one of the country’s most expensive train stations, its 32 retail spaces remain vacant. MTA officials promised that would begin to change this fall through the opening of a new outpost of Tracks Raw Bar & Grill on the station’s concourse. But fall came and went, and there’s still no bar and no grill near the tracks set 10 stories underground.
Renderings of the plans for the bar remain posted on the glass near the station’s Long Island Rail Road ticket window, where the transit agency said it plans to locate the dining area. After showing no signs of progress this year, construction barricades finally went up for the new space this week, MTA officials said.
Tracks Bar owner Bruce Caulfield wrote in a text to Gothamist that he plans to open a “pop up” version of the space by St. Patrick’s Day, to serve “beer and wine and non alcoholic beverages as well as some snack items.” He said the subterranean space still doesn’t have kitchen exhaust.
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That’s major. You would think they would have planned for that.