Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD

[CTG]

It took just about a year for the LIRR to meet its initial goal, seeing 60% percent of its customers use Grand Central Madison over 40% still using Penn Station. They saw it happen one day just last week.

I suspect the quoted article has things backward in the last sentence. The target I've seen referenced all along has been 60% Penn and 40% GCT. It would be pretty shocking if passengers were now 60% GCT and 40% Penn.

[Head-end View]

I agree; that's gotta be a typo.

[mkm4]

It is wrong. The Governor's press release has the correct numbers ( https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/govern ... gural-year)

reaching a rush hour 60 percent/40 percent split last Thursday morning, January 19, with 34,117 customers traveling to Penn Station and 22,351 traveling to Grand Central Madison

[Jeff Smith]

Mixed bag: $Newsday

Grand Central Madison, one year later: Embraced by some, reluctantly accepted by others
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MTA: Demand has grown
Although LIRR ridership has returned to nearly 75% of pre-COVID levels, Grand Central Madison is carrying less than half of the 162,000 daily passengers projected by the MTA in 2018.

Even then, the project, which once was pegged for completion in 2009, was running nearly a decade behind schedule. MTA chairman and CEO Janno Lieber took over the project in 2017 with a goal of streamlining management decisions, avoiding further budget overruns and finishing it by the end of 2022.

Since opening in early 2023, MTA officials said, demand for the station has steadily grown. For the first time since it opened, Grand Central Madison in January accounted for about 40% of LIRR trips made to and from Manhattan. That’s still shy of the 45% the MTA originally projected but above the 30% the station saw in its first several weeks.

There have been other encouraging metrics. The Grand Central Partnership — a group comprising commercial and residential owners in the Midtown East district — said the number of people with Long Island ZIP codes spending money in and around the station has climbed 60% since it opened. And the 41% increase in LIRR service made possible by the addition of Grand Central Madison — and the 2022 completion of the Third Track in Nassau County — have allowed the railroad to operate 56% more “reverse peak” trains, bringing commuters to and from jobs on Long Island.
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[gamer4616]

A new train is being added to the schedule effective 4/15/24

Train 1421
Great Neck 7:53 am
Little Neck 7:56 am
Douglaston 7:58 am
Bayside 8:00 am
Grand Central 8:24 am


To accommodate this train, Train 2019 will now arrive in Grand Central 2 minutes later at 8:27 am