Location:
Jamaica, NY
Jamaica Station & Interlocking Improvement Project:
McKissack, in association with another firm, provided engineering services for survey work, operational analysis, conceptual design and estimating to study the benefits and engineering feasibility of various Jamaica Station and Interlocking improvements in Queens, New York. The project comprised the upgrade of the interlocking complex for maximum peak capacity to serve the system and the region’s needs well into the next century. Given the new need to serve the future East Side Access (ESA), LIRR’s operations require a heavier reliance on interlocking routes feeding and receiving trains to and from four (4) line-haul tracks of the Main Line between Jamaica and Harold interlocking.
The goals of the project were to study and recommend a package of improvements that would support the LIRR’s future operating needs of two Manhattan terminals; establish, with reasonable confidence, the constructibility and operability of the improvements; and provide cost estimates and preliminary construction staging plans.
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