Back in 1996, LIRR officials told me that Port Jeff (and presumably other diesel country trains) would connect to ESA trains to/from GCT by a quick over the platform transfer at a new Sunnyside station. Of course, there will be no Sunnyside station. And LIRR likes to 'punish' diesel country passengers by making the transfer to Penn, for instance, as slow, difficult, strenuous and painful as possible, even where it seems easy. Over the years, I would have to, for instance, shove my way off a train from Penn, try to get to the hopefully working escalator, run a few platforms over, and run down the steps before the Port Jeff train departed - if indeed, they even told us what platform the PJ train would be on, let alone what platform we'd come into Jamaica on.
So I've been asking LIRR officials and reps now, numerous times, how an inbound passenger from PJ line will switch to GCT, and vice versa. Everyone I've encountered from Mr. Eng on down. And even via LIRRCC. And after years of asking, I still don't have an answer even though they claim that ESA will open in Dec 2022 (which I truly doubt).
I have heard some guesses, but does anyone have any real answers?
So I've been asking LIRR officials and reps now, numerous times, how an inbound passenger from PJ line will switch to GCT, and vice versa. Everyone I've encountered from Mr. Eng on down. And even via LIRRCC. And after years of asking, I still don't have an answer even though they claim that ESA will open in Dec 2022 (which I truly doubt).
I have heard some guesses, but does anyone have any real answers?