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Okay so the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) just opened their new terminus at Grand Central in conjunction with major schedule changes, but it's been an entire fucking disaster. Almost nobody is actually taking trains there and the trains elsewhere have been seeing major crowding. People are pissed and even the LIRR admitted that they fucked up with their new schedules.

Before Grand Central Madison (a fucking horrible name btw), LIRR only had three termini: Penn Station, Atlantic Terminal, and Hunterspoint/Long Island City. Atlantic Terminal sees little use because the LIRR detests Brooklyn and it also has quirks that make extensive use of it difficult, such as some curved platforms. Hunterspoint and Long Island City are such pathetic fucking jokes of termini that see almost zero usage and are more trainyards than termini. Therefore, LIRR desperately needed a new terminus because Penn Station is dogshit for a myriad of reasons: it's very old and decrepit; it's poorly laid out, and near capacity; LIRR can only use a small amount of tracks there because they have to share Penn with Amtrak and New Jersey Transit, but all three railroads use different rolling stock and electrification methods; and LIRR in general just has really awful scheduling. There's the infamous "Penn Station Rush" where commuters flood the stairs as their train arrives because Penn Station is literally unable to tell passengers which track their train will be on until the train physically arrives at the station.

Given the circumstances, it is only reasonable that LIRR would need another terminal, but the final product is so bad. They spent a fucking octillion and a half dollars (not the real number) to construct a brand new rail terminal BELOW Grand Central Station, which already had a whopping SIXTY-SEVEN (67) tracks, 43 of which are usable for passenger service. The only railroad that uses Grand Central Station (not GCM) is Metro-North Railroad, which absolutely does not need 43 tracks to itself. Keep in mind that the MTA controls both LIRR and MNR, meaning there would have been no issue in the two sharing the existing tracks. Even if you still want to justify the two of them having separate termini on top of each other (dunno how you would do that), the execution of GCM is still awful. It's so deep underground that even if you walk up the escalators, it still takes forever to exit the station. The amount of walking necessary to exit the station is outrageous. If you have any kind of physical disability, or even if you're just out of shape, you will probably die down there without making your train. Moving walkways, while they would be a bandaid on an otherwise atrociously executed idea, would at least make the station slightly more bearable to use.

I can rant more about this tomorrow, especially regarding how bad LIRR is at scheduling and rolling stock. It's so absurd how much they fuck up everything.