Amtrak is more than two-thirds over its initial $106 million budget for the Moynihan Train Hall project in New York City, a new report finds, and early missteps raise doubts that the new facility will be able to open to customers by the end of 2020 as planned. The $1.6 billion Moynihan project, which Amtrak is carrying out in conjunction with New York’s Empire State Development, is intended to replace the railroad’s much-maligned current quarters in Penn Station with a soaring new departure hall in Manhattan.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 19, 2020 18:13 UTC