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The most dramatic project will result in a sort of 21st century, underground Grand Central Terminal mirroring the century-old Grand Central Terminal above —a 350,000-square-foot, $8.3 billion commuter rail concourse with six miles of new tunnels. It will accommodate Long Island Rail Road trains that now bypass Manhattan's East Side as they roll east through Queens and straight to Pennsylvania Station on the island's West Side.
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That second sentence, suggesting a most dramatic 25,000-mile tunnel is being built, needs work.[*]
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Okay, explain the punchline: Penn Station, West Side; Grand Central, East Side; Queens, farther east; Long Island, still farther east; then the Atlantic Ocean and the rest of the round world, back to Penn Station. Yes, I know that trains can be run both ways through a tunnel, but that's not how the sentence reads. Sorry, no duck-themed art.