LIRR riders are used to delays — but not like this.
The MTA’s plan to bring the Long Island Rail Road into Grand Central could be delayed for a third time, and won’t be complete until 2019, the transit agency’s chief said yesterday.
The $7 billion plan was initially slated to open up in 2015.
But over the years, that date was pushed back to 2016, and then the federal government said it’d be closer to 2018.
But yesterday, MTA Chairman Joe Lhota admitted that workers tunnelling on the Queens side of the project have encountered serious issues.
“I don’t want to see it go past 2019,” Lhota told a meeting of Long Island businessmen, according to Long Island Business News.
He did not give a cost estimate for the possible new date, but it’s likely the hefty price tag will balloon even more.