LI pols weigh in on MTA Penn Station plan
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Eight Long Island state senators are urging MTA chairman Joseph Lhota to abandon a proposal to run Metro-North trains in and out of Penn Station, saying the move would increase congestion and decrease LIRR service at an already overcrowded portal.
But the signature of a key legislator -- Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), the Senate majority leader -- is absent from the correspondence to Lhota...
