Growth in train travel is facilitated by major rail improvements.
Experts are suggesting the total project, including rail improvements, could cost as much as - hold onto your helmets - $3 billion or more.
The steering group would also lobby for rail improvements.
The department anticipates spending a $1 billion of Federal and state money over the next 10 years on rail improvements and equipment.
The construction costs to complete these rail improvements would be minimal compared with the costs of highway widening and more new highways.
Where appropriate, making grants towards rail improvements.
The rail improvements are part of a $332.5 million major renovation to the market that is under negotiation.
To pay for the rail improvements there would have been two 42-storey residential buildings above the station.
The bill provides $130 million for high-speed rail improvements for the Northeast Corridor.
Nonetheless, New York has been quietly endorsing and even implementing rail improvements for years.