Willets Point is dead. Long live Willets Point. The $3 billion Bloomberg-era project to transform a neighborhood of broken streets and ramshackle auto repair shops across from Citi Field in Queens appeared dead in 2015, when a state court ruled that the city could not take a piece of Flushing Meadows…
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the Long Island Rail Road Double Track has reached a major milestone and the final five miles of…
Two new platforms will be built at the Stewart Manor Long Island Rail Road station in a construction project that begins Tuesday. The platform installation will be done in four consecutive phases, with the first starting Tuesday and lasting until mid-March, according to a MTA release. During the first phase…
The Long Island Rail Road this weekend began installing Positive Train Control, technology that can help avoid future disasters in emergency situations. PTC is a computer-controlled system that can slow or stop a train during an emergency. The railroad started its implementation on the Oyster Bay line. “They’ve been talking…
The west end of Platform B, on the south side up to the underpass, will be closed to the public starting on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, until mid-March 2018. During this time, customers should be prepared to board the first four cars when going eastbound and the last four cars while traveling westbound. Pedestrian traffic will be limited in certain areas; however, construction will not impact train service or local traffic as all work will take place on LIRR property.
The final five miles of rail in the LIRR’s Double Track project between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma will be completed this month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Friday. The new track will be 13 miles long and runs parallel to an existing 18-mile-long track, he said. The addition of the second…
Work to install the first of two new platforms at Stewart Manor will begin January 16, 2018. To fully replace both platforms, the work will be completed in four consecutive phases. Customers will be able to board and disembark trains in both directions at all times for the duration of all phases of the project, as crews will work on one half of one platform at a time.
LONG Island Rail Road (LIRR), a subsidiary of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA), has invited companies to prequalify for a tender to design, build, test, and deliver type M-9A passenger coaches for New York’s East Side Access (ESA) project. LIRR requires a minimum of 60 and up to 160…