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Comptroller: Taxpayers 'bear the brunt' of costly East Side Access delay

Vince DeNina, inspector on the East Side Access

Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | Vince DeNina, inspector on the East Side Access tunnel project, walks along work tracks of Tunnel B/C in Queens. Workers using 200-ton tunnel boring machines have finished their work. (July 26, 2012)

The MTA's East Side Access project linking the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal will be completed a decade later than originally estimated and cost twice as much as first proposed, according to a new state report.

Taxpayers "bear the brunt" of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority repeatedly missing its goals for the project, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in releasing...

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