Square wheels, East Side Access Remediation - MTA Capital Program Committee, 1/21/20

You can't have another tunnel from Penn Station to Queens (although planning entities say one will be built) due to capacity limitations caused by traffic from the East Side Access Project at Harold Interlocking - in addition to traffic coming from the Penn Station Access Project, expected to open a few years later. For more on local rail planning anomalies see: https://rail-nyc-access.com/