$91 Million Train Station at New Yankee Stadium
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New York’s Metro-North Railroad, the second-busiest U.S. commuter railroad, will construct a $91 million station at a new stadium being built for the New York Yankees under an agreement with the city announced today.
The state Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the railroad, said it will contribute about $52.2 million of the cost, while the city will pay about $38.9 million. The station is expected to open by June 2009 and serve as many as 10,000 people on game days.
The $800 million, 53,000-seat ballpark is scheduled to open by the start of the 2009 season on 22 acres of parkland just north of the Major League Baseball team’s current stadium in the city’s South Bronx section. Fans who take mass transit to Yankees games now use buses or subway trains.
“It’s been a long-awaited need for this general area,” Metro-North President Peter Cannito said. “It’s very seldom that we don’t hear that people want to take the train to Yankee Stadium.”
The new station will be just south of the Morris Heights station on Metro-North’s Hudson Line, which carries passengers between Manhattan and Poughkeepsie.
While the station will be open on non-game days only to Hudson Line riders, the railroad will provide service on all three of its lines on game days and will operate a special shuttle between Grand Central Terminal and 125th Street.
No Funding From Yankees
Andrew Albert, chairman of the New York City Transit Riders Council and a member of the authority’s board, said he was concerned that fans will have to walk six blocks from the station to the stadium and that the Yankees aren’t contributing to the project cost.
“This is a benefit to the Yankees organization, and they should have contributed something,” Albert said.
The authority plans to award a $60.6 million contract to a joint venture of Connecticut-based CCA LLC and Granite Construction Inc.’s Halmar International unit to design and build the project and a $2.87 million contract to DMJM to manage construction.
The authority’s Metro-North and finance committees approved the plan today. The authority’s board of commissioners will vote on the project later this week. The MTA’s Long Island Rail Road is the nation’s busiest commuter system.
(Source: Blo0omberg.com)
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