With the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act this month, the MTA is working to make the milestone a memorable one for mobility impaired LIRR customers. MTA Construction & Development, the LIRR and its contractors continue to work to make stations along the 10-mile long LIRR Expansion Project…
As part of the LIRR Expansion Project, customers who use stations from Floral Park to Westbury will benefit from improvements that range from new elevators to complete reconstruction. Work at these stations has continued, despite the added challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. By the time we’re finished with the overall…
We’re making good on our promise to make each of the Long Island Rail Road’s 124 stations accessible to all. Even in the midst of this COVID-19 crisis, we delivered the latest accessibility project at Murray Hill Station in Queens. Crews installed two new elevators as part of the station…
The Merillon Avenue LIRR station is an example of the MTA’s extraordinary efforts to make the system more accessible and an illustration of its extensive coordination efforts with communities. Working closely with the Village of Garden City, the project team devised a creative solution unique to this station that makes…
The Nassau Boulevard Bridge, located in the Village of Garden City along the LIRR Main Line, is scheduled to be removed and replaced with a three-track structure as part of the LIRR Expansion Project over a single weekend, October 5-6. During that weekend, the existing bridge will be removed and…
Forms are now in place at Merillon Avenue Station to create the columns that will support the new platforms at the south west of the station. These platforms will accommodate longer 12-car trains. Demolition of the old platforms and construction of new, replacement platforms will continue into the fall of…
Following the successful removal of the western halves of the platforms at Merillon Avenue Station, work to install new platforms continues. The new platforms at Merillon Avenue Station will accommodate 12-car trains: these platforms are being reconstructed utilizing 120 individual 8’ x 16’ precast concrete panels, weighting approximately 19,000 lbs.,…
Happy Birthday, Long Island Rail Road! The LIRR turned 185 years old on April 24, and former LIRR branch manager and current LIRR historian Dave Morrison and others sat down with Newsday to reminisce about the railroad’s eventful history. Stephen Quigley, president of the Long Island Sunrise Trail Chapter of…
On April 24th, the LIRR Expansion Project team hosted the monthly Mayors’ meeting at the LIRR Expansion Project Community Information Center in Mineola. Village and Town officials throughout the Project corridor convened to discuss ongoing construction activities: Tom McGuinness, MTACC Deputy Project Director, discussed recent construction milestones and provided an…
Construction on a new Merillon Avenue station has begun with the removal of the western halves of the platforms and the ongoing installation of columns to support the new station platform at the northwest portion of the station. Once the western halves are rebuilt, the eastern halves will be removed…
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