Rail disruption tormenting hundreds of thousands of commuters at New York Penn Station, where passengers are bracing for a summer of accelerated repair work, is due largely to chronic underfunding. But money alone can’t solve Penn Station’s maintenance problems, said Stephen Gardner, a senior Amtrak official. The disruption represents a reckoning after decades of running Penn Station at a pace it was never designed to handle, he...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 09, 2017 00:22 UTC