Sentences with phrase «side access project»

Some artists in Queens who will be forced from their studios are using an art exhibit to expres frustrations over the MTA's East Side Access Project.

Three federal lawmakers are urging Amtrak to better cooperate with the MTA's efforts to link the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal as part of its East Side Access project.

The plan that the board approved today, and that Albany will now spend months deliberating on, would fund a new fare payment system to replace the already - obsolete MetroCard; put $ 2.9 billion toward finally finishing the East Side Access project that will allow Long Island Rail Road passengers to disembark in Grand Central; allocate $ 1.5 billion to begin work on the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway, extending it from 96th to 125th streets; and fund countless other nitty - gritty, state - of - good - repair needs across the system's 5,000 - square - mile service area.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.) has appealed to federal officials to approve the $ 2.2 billion vital to completing the East Side Access project, which could start bringing Long Island Rail Road commuters into Grand Central Terminal in 2016.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA's) East Side Access project, which will bring Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service to Grand Central Terminal for the first time, is expected to cost nearly $ 9 billion when finished in 2019, more than twice the MTA's initial cost estimate and a decade later than expected, according to a report released Wednesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

Amtrak said in 2014 that repairs would begin in 2019, but that has now been pushed back until after the Long Island Rail Road starts to run trains into Grand Central Terminal as part of the East Side Access project.

secured for the East Side Access Project, which will bring the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal, and the $ 54 million for renovations at Queens Plaza.

«Time and again, the MTA has come up short on the goal to deliver the East Side Access project on schedule and within budget,» DiNapoli said.

They pointed to the East Side Access project which had an initial budget of $ 4.3 billion, and an estimated completion in 2009; the project now requires an additional billion dollars, and has a new completion date in 2022, they say.

Additionally, the transformative East Side Access project will create the first direct LIRR service to the east side and increase capacity to and from Manhattan.

Under the MTA's previously - existing 2015 - 2019 capital program, Arts for Transit was allotted $ 1.7 million a part of the East Side Access project, which looks to extend the Long Island Rail Road from Penn Station to Grand Central, all earmarked for 2016.

Critics have slammed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority since revelations about the East Side Access projects.

Not exact matches

The project will enhance bicyclist and pedestrian access to Navy Pier and Olive Park from the west side of Lake Shore Drive.

To ensure «we don't lose any momentum with the third track, East Side Access tunnel and the new Penn Station projects,» Cuomo should nominate someone with commuter rail experience «in addition to the traditional urban bus and subway management experience,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group.

They cited his successful efforts to secure funding for building projects, such as East Side Access to bring the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal and the Double Track project between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma.

In 2010, Christie cancelled a tunnel project, known as Access to the Region's Core, but he's now on board with the idea as long as «appropriate and fair funding» is provided by the federal government and both states on either side of the Hudson.

· Debt service on bonds issued by the MTA to fund the cost of East Side Access is estimated to exceed $ 300 million in 2019 when the project enters service.

East Side Access is the nation's largest public transportation project and the first expansion of the LIRR in more than 100 years.

Initially expected to cost $ 4.3 billion and to begin service in 2009, East Side Access is now projected to cost $ 8.76 billion when completed in August 2019.

While job creation and total investment were important considerations when SIDA provided tax exemptions to projects like the two new Tops and expanded Nojaim's on the North, South, and Near West sides, respectively, perhaps what was more important was the immeasurable value of ensuring access to healthy and affordable food for thousands of city residents.

Senator David Carlucci said, «This transformative project will not only create a high - tech, durable bridge that is built to last, it will improve access to businesses on both sides of the Hudson by lessening travel time for motorists.

The project includes the upgrade of two sidings or passing tracks, one of which passenger trains use to access the Syracuse station, the other used by freight trains to access the nearby freight yard.

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As a side project while working on early access features, I re-worked the backstory over and over again.

Over the past 16 years, the organization has remained faithful to this early intention and continues to grow and expand access for artists, curators, and the larger arts community through an exhibition program at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, the Lower East Side Studio Program residency and a newly established commissions program, Public Works.

«The government's recently announced funding for energy innovation projects is an encouraging step, but the priority should be market reform to ensure equal market access for demand - side providers and power generation.»

Clinton, who weighed in on the Dakota Access pipeline for the first time last week in a noncommittal statement, finds herself torn between labor unions on one side, who want the jobs created by the project, and Native American activists and environments on the other side, who say the pipeline would pollute water and violate sacred land.

From the perspective of someone on the other side of the «digital divide», every dollar spent on digital access to justice projects might very well be a dollar taken away from other projects that could serve them better.

As a side project DC WiFi was created as a nonprofit to help create a web of open wireless WiFi access points across Washington and beyond and educate people about wireless security.

As a side project DC WiFi was created to help create a web of open wireless WiFi access points across cities and educate people about wireless security.

Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution side - channel These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running in the browser, which may allow attackers to gain access to memory... Read more

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Located on the southern side of Powell Road and to the west of the City of Powell's municipal building, the project site is four miles from U.S. Highway 23, enabling direct access to downtown Columbus less than 20 miles away.