Train in vain: The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s cost projections for reviving the Long Island Rail Road’s Rockaway Beach Branch don’t add up

By The Editorial Board, New York Daily News; October 12, 2019

The last trains ran on the Long Island Rail Road’s Rockaway Beach Branch from Ozone Park up to the main line at Rego Park and into Penn Station on June 8, 1962, a Friday. The line could have been reactivated that Saturday at zero expense.

So how come, in a just-released feasibility study, MTA-hired consultants now peg the restoration cost at $6,774,400,000?

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