MTA Long Island Rail Road crews will be out in force on the Long Beach Branch the weekend of Sept. 21-22 to restore signal system components that were damaged by Superstorm Sandy and increase their resiliency, and to perform maintenance on the Reynolds Channel Bridge, which connects Island Park and Long Beach.
The Covert Avenue Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its 25th year hosting the Covert Avenue Street Fair on Saturday, September 21, on Tulip Avenue from 11 a.m. to 5p.m. The quarter-mile event stretches from Tulip Avenue to Cisney Avenue and includes giant inflatables, face painting, a craft fair, live music…
The LIRR Expansion Project team continues its robust coordination efforts with school districts throughout the project corridor. The team recently met with the Superintendent of Carle Place School District, Dr. Christine Finn, and the Director of Transportation, Kevin Coffey, to discuss ongoing construction work in Carle Place, including the successful…
On September 14th, the LIRR Expansion Project team celebrated New Hyde Park Community Day at Memorial Park. Community Ambassadors to New Hyde Park, Judy White and Camille Koorey, engaged with interested residents about the ongoing construction work in the Village, including the Covert Avenue grade crossing elimination. As an end…
Wyandanch Station is part of the Long Island Rail Road’s ongoing, system-wide effort to upgrade, modernize and beautify many of its stations, and one of its gems is Wyandanch Station. As part of the Double Track Project, the LIRR built two new 12-car-long platforms that include a snow melt system,…
The MTA today released the 2020-2024 Capital Plan that proposes investing $51.5 billion into the region’s subways, buses and railroads over the next five years. The proposed capital plan includes $5.7 billion for the Long Island Rail Road, which will enable its historic transformation by the planned December 2022 opening of East Side Access and the Main Line Expansion Project. The Main Line Expansion Project is adding a third track on 10 miles of the Main Line corridor, used by 40% of LIRR customers.
The Covert Avenue grade crossing has come a long way since the 1940s. During the successful bridge push-in the weekend of August 24-25 in New Hyde Park, esteemed LIRR historian Dave Morrison stopped by the construction site to enlighten construction crews and onlookers about the grade crossing’s storied history.
South Retaining Wall LIRR crews have completed constructing three of the four retaining walls required to raise the tracks at the Accabonac Road Bridge in East Hampton. This work is being done in preparation to replace the two bridges, which were constructed 125 years ago in 1895 along the Montauk…
The Linden Avenue pedestrian underpass to the Floral Park Recreation Center is now closed so workers can prepare to replace it with a new structure to accommodate a third LIRR track, as part of the LIRR Expansion Project. The underpass, originally constructed in 1960, currently provides pedestrian access to the…
The modernized South Tyson Avenue Bridge in Floral Park was rolled 13 feet into place over a single weekend, August 17-18. It was the third successful bridge roll-in of the summer as part of the LIRR Expansion Project. Construction crews from 3rd Track Constructors and MTA Long Island Rail Road…
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