Use the Rockaway Beach Branch to Increase Mainline Capacity - LIRR/Metro North Committee 3/27/23
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Published 2023-03-27
The central problem is lack of track capacity, and although nothing like East Side Access ever crossed their minds, the owners of the LIRR during the first half of the 20th Century did foresee a scheme to increase capacity between Jamaica and the Manhattan terminal(s) - where it's most desperately needed.