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NEW YORK CITY — The MTA has announced a new program that will let riders of the Long Island Rail Road report an issue with a bathroom stall in real time.
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On December 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson boarded the 5:33 p.m. eastbound train at Penn Station in Manhattan, New York, which stopped at the Jamaica station in Queens.He boarded the third car of the eastbound Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) commuter train from Penn Station to Hicksville, along with more than eighty other passengers.
The M8 is an electric multiple unit railroad car built by Kawasaki for use on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line and the CT Rail Shore Line East.The fleet of 471 cars first entered service in 2011, replacing the M2, M4 and M6 cars, which entered service in 1973, 1987 and 1994, respectively. [9]
The Forest Hills station is a station on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), located in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens in New York City.It is lightly used compared to other stations in the city, with 2,408 daily riders in 2023; [3] many residents opt for the subway because of its more frequent service, cheaper fares, and direct express trains to Midtown Manhattan.
The first depot opened as Newtown in 1855 by the Flushing Railroad, [4] and was demolished in 1888. The second depot opened around December 1888, was renamed Elmhurst in June 1897, had high platforms constructed in 1912, and was demolished around 1927.
Elmhurst could see its Long Island Rail Road station functioning once again after several lawmakers urged the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reopen the station decades after its closure.
The preliminary design for a future replacement bridge had already been performed between 2017 and 2019, and the new bridge is slated to be built as part of the MTA's 2020–2024 Capital Program. The new Webster Avenue Bridge, at the time of the announcement, was anticipated to be completed by 2023. See also