The U.S. Department of Transportation on March 23 reported selecting the AECOM-led joint venture with LiRo-Hill to provide project management services for the Penn Station New York “Transformation” Project, which is slated to begin construction by the end of 2027. (Courtesy of Amtrak) The AECOM-LiRo NYPennT Joint Venture will work with Amtrak and the Master Developer—to be selected in May and announced in June—on the long-delayed project, which is slated to renovate and modernize the station; increase concourse capacity and access; enable safer and more efficient operations; accommodate passenger service growth; and deliver what USDOT said will be a “world-class experience” for users (download Fact Sheet below). In Fiscal Year 2024, PSNY welcomed more than 12 million people—nearly 18% of total Amtrak ridership and nearly 45% of Northeast Corridor ridership. It supports more than 1,000 daily train movements among Amtrak, New Jersey Transit (NJT), and MTA Long Island Rail Road across 21 tracks. NY-Penn-Transformation-Fact-SheetDownload USDOT on March 23 also announced that: NJT “has become a key partner in the transformation” project. Amtrak has met with each of the three qualified Master Developer teams—Penn Forward Now (Fengate), Penn Transformation Partners (Halmar), and Grand Penn Partners (Macquarie)—that have been shortlisted to compete to lead Penn Station project delivery, so they could discuss their design proposals (download the list of short listed teams and their member firms below). “Early work has started to progress on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) activities and the Service Optimization Study [on ways to accommodate passenger service growth at New…
