MTA Metro-North Railroad could make access to Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station an official priority in its next five-year capital construction program to be released in 2014, despite decades of obstruction. At present, Grand Central Terminal serves as the terminus for all Metro-North operations east of the Hudson River. The plan, currently labeled West Side Access, would involve routings some Metro-North New Haven Line trains over Amtrak's Hell Gate Bridge and to Penn Station, on Manhattan's West Side. A second phase would allow Metro-North's Hudson Line to also access Penn Station, via crossing the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge and traversing Amtrak's right-of-way along Manhattan's West Side.
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