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The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), or LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. The railroad currently operates a public commuter rail service, with its freight operations contracted to the New York and Atlantic Railway.
Evening commutes from New York City to Long Island faced delays Thursday following a late-morning Long Island Rail Road derailment in Queens that injured 13 people, MTA officials said. The delays ...
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.
In mid-2012, the MTA issued a joint procurement request for the LIRR and Metro-North for a total of up to 676 M9 railcars, set for delivery between 2016 and 2020. [9] On September 18, 2013, Kawasaki Heavy Industries was awarded a nearly $1.8 billion contract for the order, comprising a base order of 92 cars for the LIRR (costing $355 million) with options for an additional 584 cars (304 for ...
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[18] [19] However, due to delays in the M9 contract, the Long Island Rail Road is keeping around 100 M3 cars in service; the cars are expected to be rebuilt to last through at least 2024. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Metro-North also planned to overhaul their M3A units, [ 22 ] but later stated that they "are working with LIRR to procure new M9A cars in the ...
Basilio Hidalgo, 40, was charged with driving while intoxicated (DUI) after he drove an SUV onto the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and caused a fiery blaze at around 4:52 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8 ...
However, due to delays in the East Side Access project (which would give LIRR riders a second direct route into Manhattan via the 63rd Street Tunnel), Amtrak later pushed back the start date of the East River Tunnels' reconstruction to 2025, and increased the construction time to four years. [20]