There’s a feud brewing between Metro-North and Amtrak and it’s getting nasty. Worse yet, this tiff is already hurting our train service in Connecticut.
Since 2021, construction has been underway to bring some Metro-North trains into New York’s Penn Station, rather than Grand Central. At New Rochelle, New York trains headed to New York City will “hang a left” and go to the Hell’s Gate Bridge, just as Amtrak trains now do, with new station stops in the Bronx.
This is significant not only for getting Connecticut and Westchester commuters to Manhattan’s west side, but more importantly, to harvest labor of Bronx residents for jobs in Connecticut via a speedy, reverse-commuter train ride…