Beneft for local train riders yet to be seen

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Some riders wrote about a lack of signage in the terminal guiding people where to go. Others commented about the length of the station’s escalators.

“The signs in GCM are very vague. My first time it took me a while to find the tracks.” Isakova wrote. “Yes, the folks were there to help, but when you walk, the signs were a bit confusing. Now the famous escalators are very steep. One can really get hurt there if in a rush. My advice is to just not run through them and just stand to take you all the way down.”

Wendy Chan from Westbury said more signs are needed because she was “totally lost.”

“Had to leave work earlier and added extra 20 minutes to my commute back home,” Chan wrote. “At the moment not beneficial. Will wait for direct trains and no transfer at Jamaica. And the escalator to the station was like terror especially if you are trying to catch the train at the last minute.”

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Tunneling began for this project in 2007. With a price tag of over $11 billion, the project features 13 miles of tunnels and 40 miles of new track.

“Big waste of billions,” East Meadow resident Jeffrey Rosen wrote. “It’s too close to Penn Station for it to make much of a difference. If they were going to add another line to Manhattan they should have went to lower Manhattan.”

RHoAdS, top Row, second from right, has already made inroads in the state capitol, championing the ‘Rescue New York’ plan.