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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
LIRR customer satisfaction, which stood at 81 percent before East Side Access opened, decreased to 68 percent by May 2023, in part because of the loss of direct service to Atlantic Terminal and the discontinuation of timed transfers at Jamaica, an MTA study found.
The M9 is a class of electric multiple unit railroad cars being built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for use on the MTA's Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad. They entered service September 11, 2019.
In 2023, LIRR saw non-commutation surpass 2019 levels. LIRR ridership inside the city — especially from historically disadvantaged neighborhoods — is up 28 percent, MTA Chair and CEO Janno ...
LONG ISLAND, NY — The MTA voted unanimously in favor of a 4 percent fare increase systemwide, including the Long Island Rail Road. Board member Neal Zuckerman said, though, "This is not a fare ...
SUNNYSIDE, QUEENS — A proposed commuter rail station in Sunnyside that has long been dreamed about by transit advocates will now undergo a more formal study by the MTA, the agency revealed last ...
A retired LIRR M1 with other cars at the Railroad Museum of Long Island in Riverhead M1. In 1999, the MTA awarded Bombardier Transportation the contract to build the replacement for the M1 series, the M7 series. With the arrival of the first M7s to the LIRR in 2002 and the first M7As to Metro-North in 2004, both roads began to retire the M1 series.
Posted Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:21 pm ET. Cathy Rinaldi is resigning as interim president of the LIRR. (Jerry Barmash/Patch) LONG ISLAND, NY — Long Island Rail Road interim president Cathy ...
The LIRR's steam passenger locomotives were modernized from 1901 to 1906, and by 1927, it was the first Class I railroad to replace all its wood passenger cars with steel. [2] In 1926, the LIRR was the first U.S. railroad to begin using diesel locomotives. The last steam locomotive was a G5s operated until 1955. [2]
A coalition of leading Long Island business organizations are calling upon the Village of Garden City to approve a permit that would allow the LIRR Third Track project to move forward towards ...