Aware, perhaps, of massive cost overruns on many massive government construction jobs, Amtrak’s Andy Byford is warning developers that the Penn Station rebuild will not have an open checkbook.
Affordable is the political word of the year. Now, it’s even come for plans for a new Penn Station.
“What we can’t do is have a beautiful new station that’s unaffordable for the railroads to be able to deliver,” said the official in charge of delivering it, Andy Byford, special adviser to Amtrak, which...