The MTA’s hopes of offering limited Metro-North service at new stations in the East Bronx as soon as next year appear to be dwindling, officials confirmed Friday.
The regional transportation authority had floated the alternative last October as part of a plan to jump start Penn Station Access, the $2.9 billion megaproject to eventually extend the Metro-North Railroad west to Penn Station and to open four new commuter rail stations in East Bronx neighborhoods that have fewer mass transit options.
The overall project has been slowed by a series of disputes with Amtrak that have pushed its original completion date from 2027 to 2030, even as the MTA has pressed the federally funded passenger railroad to help make up for lost time…