News 4 clearly drank the kool aid! Any of you ever hear of "Grand Central Madison"? Makes no sense since this serves people to the east, west, north and south, with direct exiting - hopefully, to Park Ave. and Madison Ave. Though based on their report, it only exits to Madison Ave at 47th Street and to the GCT Food Court (aka the GCT Homeless Residence). Oh, I missed 347 Madison Ave.
For years we've been told it would save us 40 minutes a day in our commute - now it's 30. And that, of course, is only for people taking electric trains directly from their home station to GCT. Whether there will be any time savings, or what they would be, for people who have to transfer - and in particular that includes diesel country riders, what time savings their might be, if any, is a closely guarded MTA secret.
Unlike CrossRail, we won't have platform edge protection with doors. It can't be because these brand new platforms are not strong enough to bear the weight. So why don't we have this huge safety upgrade?
I find it pitiful that unlike Transport For London's CrossRail project, we get little viable information. With CrossRail, we get videos of each station being finished, full details of evacuation tests, a good look at numerous test trains (right now one train every 5 minutes each way, constant updates on where they are in the very extensive testing. We get video of a column being polished.
If and when it does open, are there any plans in place for keeping out the homeless? Will there be police patrols including late at night?
Just wondering...