The LIRR Concourse Project is Underway: What’s Happening Behind the Wall? Following the timely completion of the iconic new East End Gateway entrance to Penn Station at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue, work is advancing on the next phase of the project – the new LIRR Concourse. Over the past…
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and MTA Construction & Development President Janno Lieber on May 27th announced that major construction on the East Side Access project as been completed. Testing and commissioning of all equipment will continue through next year, when the eight-track LIRR terminal will be put into service under…
Marking another important milestone for LIRR Expansion Project, the new Nassau 1 Interlocking was tested and put into service by MTA C&D and the Long Island Rail Road during a recent weekend service outage. An interlocking is a series of switches that enable trains to move from one track to…
Why does widening the corridors and raising the ceilings of Penn Station’s subterranean LIRR Concourse require construction at street level? The LIRR Concourse Project is replacing two aging utility boxes under 33rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues to reconfigure utilities and optimize use of the space. New York City…
The MTA is in the midst of important infrastructure improvement projects at Jamaica Station for both the Subway and LIRR properties. Much of the work to tracks and signals are hard to see, but we are also improving wayfinding so customers can more easily navigate the station. As part of…
As part of the LIRR Expansion Project, MTA Construction & Development and LIRR have developed a series of environmental and community commitments to minimize construction impacts. The Community Scorecard Program was created to give residents, businesses and commuters a direct voice in the Design-Builder’s performance evaluations. We invite you to…
Rail Group on Air, presented by Railway Aged and Railway Track & Structures magazines and International Railway Journal recently spotlighted the success of the LIRR Expansion Project on its well-regarded podcast. According to Bill Wilson, editor in chief of Railway Track & Structures magazine and the host of the podcast,…
Following the opening of the East End Gateway to Penn Station late last year, momentum has shifted to the LIRR Concourse in 2021’s first quarter. MTA Construction & Development and its contractors will revamp the 33rd Street Corridor at Penn Station by raising the ceilings, widening the corridors, improving lighting…
Railway Tracks and Structures (RT&S), a leading trade journal that covers the railroad industry, has selected the recently completed B/C Approach Structure for East Side Access for the 2021 RT&S Top Project list. East Side Access will accommodate LIRR trains in a new terminal beneath Grand Central Terminal by the…
Platform F stairway with glass artwork. MTA C&D’s LIRR modernization work planned for this year rivals the aggressive schedule being met by the successful Third Track project, with signal replacement, a new substation, Jamaica Station capacity improvements, viaduct work, and smaller mentoring program work on tab for 2021. The railroad’s…
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