As the LIRR Expansion Project Team continues on schedule after a spectacular 2019, LIRR crews will install new switches at Nassau interlocking January 18-19, February 1-2, and February 8-9. This work will cause some service changes on these weekend Saturdays only. Keep reading for service details below. This Saturday, 1/18,…
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As part of the LIRR Expansion Project, the MTA developed the Design-Builder Incentive Program to assess Design-Build Contractor 3rd Track Constructors’ (3TC) adherence to community and environmental commitments. 3TC is eligible to earn an incentive of up to $250,000 each quarter by meeting or exceeding these commitments: when the commitments…
The Fox 5 NY news team visited several LIRR Expansion Project elements, including Merillon Avenue and New Hyde Park Road Grade, where the grade crossing will be elimminated this year. Fox 5 NY reporter Jodi Goldberg interviewed Tom McGuiness, deputy project director on LIRR Expansion. She reported on the tremendous…
As the LIRR Expansion Project Team continues on schedule after a spectacular 2019, LIRR crews will install new switches at Nassau interlocking this weekend, January 11-12, and again January 18-19, February 1-2, and February 8-9. This work will cause some service changes on these weekend Saturdays only. Keep reading for…
The MTA ended 2019 having completed almost two dozen Long Island Rail Road projects! Stations were modernized, new bridges were installed, grade crossings were eliminated…the Railroad even became the first North American railway (and first worldwide) to use lasers to blast leaf residue from its rails. The LIRR Modernization Program,…
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…
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