Moynihan Station lies at the nexus of a regional network that is growing rapidly and expected to continue to grow further as the significant transit service improvements planned by NJT, LIRR, Metro-North and Amtrak lead to increased ridership, and as highway congestion in the tri-state area makes highway access more problematic. By 2016, all of northern New Jersey's nine rail lines will have one-seat access to the complex via the new Trans-Hudson Express tunnels. ARC, as the project is commonly known, will double ridership at peak times. By 2013, thanks to East Side Access, LIRR will be able to increase the quantity of direct service to its branch lines from Moynihan Station. Added to this could be brand new service to two of Metro-North's three major rail lines, growing intercity rail service on both the Wash­ington-to-Boston Northeast Corridor and on the Empire Line to upstate New York, through-services among the three commuter rail lines, and direct airport service to JFK and Stewart.