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According to MTA Spokesperson Joana Flores, this less familiar method of collecting tickets is known as "gating," and the expansion has its roots in a 2023 blue-ribbon report on MTA fare and toll ...
It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which refers to it as MTA Long Island Rail Road. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 75,186,900, or about 253,800 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023. The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and
LONG ISLAND, NY — A total of 43 LIRR employees earned more than $250,000 in 2020, according to payroll data released by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000...
The Main Line near Jamaica, which is visible in the foreground. 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 ...
East Side Access ( ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan 's East Side.
The MTA anticipates the project will be completed by the end of 2022. It also expects about 45 percent of LIRR passengers to use the new service to Grand Central, which the agency says "will help ...
List of Long Island Rail Road stations. 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 ...
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said the service will add 271 LIRR trains per day, increasing LIRR systemwide service to 936 trains per day, with 296 heading to or from Grand Central Madison.
As a "readiness project" for the LIRR's East Side Access extension project to Grand Central Terminal, the MTA extended Track 2 an additional 1,200 feet (370 m) east, making it long enough to store two trainsets. This would allow the LIRR to increase the number of peak-hour trips between Great Neck and Penn Station/Grand Central. It also ...
MTA officials told News 12 that major crimes on the LIRR were up by 71 percent through the first half of 2022. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Commissioner John Mueller announced at a ...