East Side Access: The cost and delays
The project connecting the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal is still on track to be completed by the end of 2022, but the cost has gone up by nearly $1 billion.
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The cost of the MTA’s East Side Access megaproject has risen again — this time by another $995 million, to about $11.2 billion. That’s more than 2 1/2 times the original estimate when the project was first proposed in the 1990s.
See how both the cost and the timeline had shifted over time, and read more here about why the MTA says those increases have occurred.
In 1999
it was supposed to cost
$4.3 billion
and be completed by 2009.In 2003
it was supposed to cost
$5.3 billion
and be completed by 2011.In 2004
it was supposed to cost
$6.3 billion
and be completed by 2012.In 2009
it was supposed to cost
$7.3 billion
and be completed by 2016.In 2012
it was supposed to cost
$8.3 billion
and be completed by 2019.In 2014
it was supposed to cost
$9.7 billion
and be completed by 2021.In 2015
it was supposed to cost
$10.2 billion
and be completed by 2022.Today
it is supposed to cost
