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  2. Long Island Rail Road - Wikipedia

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    The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems owned by the MTA, the other being the Metro-North Railroad in the northern suburbs of the New York area. Established in 1834 (the first section between the Brooklyn waterfront and Jamaica opened on April 18, 1836) and having operated ...

  3. History of the Long Island Rail Road - Wikipedia

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    The Long Island Rail Road is a railroad owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the U.S. state of New York. It is the oldest United States railroad still operating under its original name and charter. [1] It consolidated several other companies in the late 19th century. The Pennsylvania Railroad owned the Long Island Rail Road for the majority of the 20th century and sold it to ...

  4. Main Line (Long Island Rail Road) - Wikipedia

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    The Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. It begins as a two-track line at Long Island City station in Long Island City, Queens, and runs along the middle of Long Island about 95 miles (153 km) to Greenport station in Greenport, Suffolk County. At Harold Interlocking approximately one mile east of Long Island City, the tracks ...

  5. List of Long Island Rail Road stations - Wikipedia

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    The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. Serving 301,763 passengers per day as of 2007 [1] and 88.5 million riders for the year of 2008, [2] it is the busiest commuter ...

  6. Plan To Bring LIRR Service To East Side On Track To Start In ...

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    Highlights of the project, according to the MTA, include direct connection for all 11 LIRR lines to Grand Central Terminal and Midtown East; a new, 350,000-square-foot terminal with spacious ...

  7. Dreamed-Of Sunnyside LIRR, Metro-North Station To Be ... - Patch

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    The proposal to build a Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road station within sprawling Sunnyside Yard was included in the MTA's 20-year needs assessment — a list of two dozen projects that the ...

  8. Metropolitan Transportation Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in North America, serving 12 counties in Downstate New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department ...

  9. MTA Approves LIRR Fare Increase; Board Member Declares Not A ...

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    LONG ISLAND, NY — The MTA voted unanimously in favor of a 4 percent fare increase systemwide, including the Long Island Rail Road.

  10. Long Island City station - Wikipedia

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    The station is served only during weekday rush hours in the peak direction by diesel trains from the Oyster Bay, Montauk, or Port Jefferson Branches via the Main Line. Until November 2012, some LIRR trains also ran via the Lower Montauk Branch to and from this station. Due to this limited service, it gets only 101 riders per week, making it the second least used LIRR station in New York City ...

  11. MYmta - Wikipedia

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    MYmta is a mobile application -based passenger information display system developed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York City. A beta version of the app was launched on July 2, 2018, and as of June 2019 is still undergoing beta testing. While other applications exist which serve similar functions, MYmta is an all-in-one source for data provided directly by the MTA. [1]