New York City's Penn Station is busier than the JFK International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport, unsurprisingly making it the busiest transit center in America. With the holiday just around the corner, it's about to become a zoo.
On a daily basis, 1,200 trains pass through the station. Dispatchers, who are the "train station equivalents of air traffic controllers," oversee operations from the Penn Station Control Center, which is located two blocks from the station.
The Star-Ledger adds that 650,000 people pass through Penn Station every day, which is not only more than the three airports in the area combined, but two times more than Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport—the busiest airport in the U.S.
What's more, there's work being done to make it even larger. Now if only something could be done to make it less of an eyesore.
[via Gothamist and Star-Ledger]
