If you use Rochester's Amtrak station you'll find some changes starting Monday. There will be a new, temporary building.
The irony is that the current station, which opened in the late 1970s, was also meant to be temporary, but it has stuck around all this time with facilities that were originally also supposed to be used on an interim basis.
New York State Department of Transportation spokesperson Lori Maher says as of Monday, people taking the train will still park in the same lot, but the new, temporary station will be on the other side of the parking lot while work continues on the new permanent station.
"Everything will be essentially the same, all of the operations and ticketing and baggage, everything will be the same, just moved over to this other building that's right here on the other side of the parking lot. "
The new station is part of a nearly $30 million project designed to provide a number of improvements including a train station which is ADA compliant, and also has an additional track for passengers to help decrease delays.
The permanent station is expected to be completed in the fall of 2017
