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Longtime Long Island Rail Road President Phillip Eng announced that he will be stepping down after decades in New York State Public Service and he will be temporarily replaced by a familiar face.Eng, a Smithtown resident who has been worki…
Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is running for governor of New York, says Penn Station scares him and that he is concerned about all the homeless people who flock there.
Courtesy Office of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has asked the Internal Revenue Service to allow commuters to access money that was deducted from their paychecks for train tickets to ride Metropolitan Transportation Authority railways. Schumer, from the Merrick LIRR train station on Long Island, asked the Internal Revenue Service to figure out a way for Long Islanders to access the unused money accrued last year from that payroll deduction. “The federal government and the IRS by keeping the money when people couldn't use it, they weren't even allowed to...
LIRR Commuter Council Fears Crowding As MTA Cuts Service To Recover From Pandemic 03/08/21 AT 2:29 PM Getting around the New York area will be more difficult for those who rely on mass transit. The Long Island Rail Road, which has 700 miles of track and averaged more than 350,000 passengers a day, is cutting services amid the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to financially recover from the drop in passengers across the Metropolitan Transportation Authority system. Members of the LIRR Commuter Council are concerned the cuts to the service could cause crowding for riders, according to a re...
MTA completes Positive Train Control safety system on the LIRR News 12 Staff Updated on:Dec 23, 2020, 10:40pm EST Your ride on the Long Island Rail Road just got safer thanks to the completion of an installation of a high-tech safety system. MTA officials say the newly finished technology on LIRR trains will give commuters a safer ride. "This technology can help stop accidents before they occur and keep our customers and employees safe," says MTA Chairman Patrick Foye. "It's a major advance in transit not only here in New York but across the nation." The MTA announced it has completed its Pos...