Amtrak Seeks Private Partners to Spruce Up Decrepit Penn Station
- CEO Moorman outlines plans at New York Assembly panel hearing
- Railroad asks NJT, LIRR to consider joint concourse management
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Amtrak announced plans to improve passenger concourses in New York’s Pennsylvania Station, after repeated equipment failures in recent weeks have led to delays, cancellations and angry crowds at the nation’s busiest rail depot.
The national railroad said it will create an entity that will seek nongovernment partners to handle concourse operations and maintenance and make improvements. It also is asking the Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit, which lease their own passenger ticketing and waiting areas at the station, to consider joint control.