Could the MTA sue Amtrak over Penn Station?
POSTED:APR 24 2017 10:27PM EDT
UPDATED:APR 24 2017 10:44PM EDT
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) - MTA board members are fed up with Amtrak's handling of Penn Station. The MTA is now considering legal action against Amtrak after trail derailments in March and April.
Amtrak owns and maintains Penn Station. The Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit are tenants. Several MTA board members suggested the MTA should take ownership of Penn Station.
Amtrak issued a statement saying, in part, "Amtrak is hard at work every day maintaining Penn Station in the face of huge train volumes, aging infrastructure, decades of underinvestment and competing priorities within the terminal area. Talk of lawsuits or speculation about changing ownership isn't going to help solve these problems."
Could the MTA sue Amtrak over Penn Station?The general counsel for the LIRR told MTA board members that winning a lawsuit against Amtrak would be difficult, but that the authority is considering the possibility of doing it.
Source: http://www.fox5ny.com/news/250497372-story
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On a side note, at the latest 
Board Meeting, members such as Charles Moerdler were vividly furious with the problems that have arose from Amtrak.
"It seems to me that somebody's got to make sense out of Penn Station's utlization," said MTA board member Charles Moerdler. "If the federal government doesn't do it, perhaps it's time for New York to condemn the damn place."