The Covert Avenue grade crossing in New Hyde Park has been eliminated and reconstructed to provide a two-lane grade-separated underpass with a pedestrian sidewalk on the east side of the underpass. The roadway beneath the underpass was officially opened in October 2019, and the opening of bridges on 2nd and…
She’s the belle of the Babylon Branch! Bellmore Station has received a full menu of station upgrades, including a renovated station waiting room, new art, platform rehabilitation and a new platform canopy. This beautiful station serves 7,000 weekday customers – it was first established by South Side Rail Road in…
During the past year, the LIRR Expansion Project successfully eliminated two grade crossings with underpasses beneath grade crossings at Urban Avenue in North Hempstead and Covert Avenue in New Hyde Park. Work was completed with only a weekend suspension of railroad services and a 180-day closure of the street. Work…
What do concrete walls have to do with running railroad service? It means we’re fulfilling our commitment to being good neighbors, that’s what. So far, as part of the LIRR Expansion Project, we’ve installed nearly 18,000 linear feet of these walls along parts of the 9.8-mile project corridor. But what…
2019 was an unprecedented year in the history of the Long Island Rail Road. The Railroad improved its Ontime Performance (OTP), increased accessibility on trains and at stations while completing sweeping upgrades throughout the system, including 14 switch replacements, two grade crossing eliminations, eight bridge replacements and more than 10…
Alongside Expansion Project team member Dan Marcy, the East Woods School LEGO Robotics team points to their project’s location in Syosset on the map of the entire LIRR system. LEGO at school!! Don’t you wish you were still a student? On Monday, December 9, at the LIRR Expansion Project Community…
The MTA LIRR Expansion Project Floral Park to Hicksville team had a busy 2019! Here’s a timelapse video of the major milestones completed this year: “We have four more existing bridges to replace and six more at-grade crossings to eliminate over the next 35 months,” said MTA Chief Development Officer…
Support of excavation work has begun for the new Plainfield Avenue bridge in Floral Park, one of several bridges that have been or will be replaced as part of the LIRR Expansion project from Floral Park to Hicksville. Once this phase of construction is complete, work will start on the…
One of the true gems of the Long Island Rail Road, Port Jefferson Station, located on the Port Jefferson Branch, serves approximately 1,375 riders each weekday. The current station building, opened on July 25, 1903, was designed by famed architect Stanford White, most known for designing the triumphal arch at…
The transformation of Penn Station continues to move forward, with construction related to the East End Gateway and LIRR Concourse project requiring the temporary relocation of the LIRR’s Ticket Office. On Wednesday, the now-former ticket office was closed as the relocated Ticket Office, with six ticket windows, opened between the…
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