Sentences with phrase «rail road said»
The Long Island Rail Road said it will be ready for the first major snowstorm of the season, even if it means awakening the force of its most powerful weapon: «Darth Vader.»
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The Long Island Rail Road said it will be ready to move heavy crowds of riders to and from Belmont Park this Saturday, even if the stakes, and the attendance, won't be nearly as high as in recent years, due to the fact that there's no Triple Crown on the line.
The Long Island Rail Road says it will work to improve on - time performance after it posted its worst delays in over 20 years last month.
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Mobius said investors can participate in various ways, including via construction equipment companies, which should see demand from increased road, rail, port and bridge development.
Supporters say it would provide a safer and more cost - effective way to transport Bakken shale to the U.S. Gulf than by road or rail.
«The president talked about infrastructure improvements in roads and rail lines — these are all types of projects that get lots of small business involved,» said Charles Green, the executive director of the Small Business Finance Institute.
Western Australian Planning Commission chairman Eric Lumsden says the newly endorsed $ 2.3 billion road and rail package for the metropolitan area will address Perth's public transport needs for the next 25 to 50 years.
Citing the $ 650 million Ronkonkoma Hub mixed - use project and $ 600 million project near the Long Island Rail Road station in Wyandanch, Bellone says «a new suburbia is on the horizon, and Suffolk County is leading the way.»
Rev David Cameron, Minister at Queensferry Parish Church, said the new bridge was an impressive feat of engineering and the design complemented the existing road and rail bridges.
He said infrastructure such as road and rail, water, port facilities and bulk handling facilities, with appropriate government involvement, would be the most likely investment before direct farm investment.
A Long Island Rail Road commuter who was targeted in a racist rant aboard the train says she plans to press charges against her tormenter, calling his words a «hate crime.»
On the day the government published details of the legislation needed to kick start the project, experts said the public needed to hear more about how it would free up capacity on the road and rail network.
A bill that surfaced late in the state legislative session became the subject of a fight that legislators said pitted safety measures on the Long Island Rail Road against the need for a third track to improve efficiency and cut congestion.
«There's no way going from where most Long Islanders would take [it] if they were taking the Long Island Rail Road as opposed to driving to go see the Islanders,» he said.
«What I believe here is that this gives the backing to the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to stop payments, and as I've been reading in the news and hearing on the news is Amtrak, after the governor and our national representatives... have gotten together calling on Trump for federal funding, which I fully support, Amtrak came out and said that they have the money to do this fix,» said state Sen. Elaine Phillips, the bill's sponsor who also chairs the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee.
Senator Phil Boyle said, «There are many solutions needed to mitigate the problems plaguing the Long Island Rail Road.
The web of corruption former state Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio wove ensnared the Long Island Rail Road and an official at Plaza College in Jackson Heights, among others, prosecutors said at a pre-sentencing hearing for the Richmond Hill politician last week.
«Ridership is going to continue to grow on the Long Island Rail Road, and that's all the more reason why we need to continue supporting investments in expanding its capacity,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, a business and planning group.
We will be building a new road, we will be moving rail lines in the front that cut off the site,» Poloncarz said.
«If we can't build these 9.8 miles of track now, when a plan is on the table within the Long Island Rail Road right of way, then this may well be our last opportunity for a third track,» Bellone said.
The MTA will audit safety procedures at the Long Island Rail Road after an NTSB report criticized the railroad for lax enforcement of rules that could have saved the life of a worker struck by a train last June, railroad officials said.
Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos said his office will withhold a $ 28 million annual maintenance payment to the MTA this month after surveying nearly 400 Long Island Rail Road commuters and finding 65 percent were dissatisfied.
The Long Island Rail Road will be able to operate on all its usual tracks at Penn Station over the next few weeks, until Amtrak begins the final stages of its current infrastructure renewal project at the busy commuter hub, a key Amtrak official said.
The deterioration of Penn Station's infrastructure that resulted in Long Island Rail Road commuters» «summer of hell» was caused by decades of underinvestment in Amtrak by the federal government and the railroads that use its tracks, including the LIRR, transportation experts said.
The Long Island Rail Road station's parking lot must be reconfigured and expanded, with possible time limits implemented, and the nearby Long Island Power Authority substation better landscaped, they said.
«The future of the Long Island Rail Road is about much more than that old 7:12 I used to take from Huntington to Penn Station,» Hakim said.
Mark J. Epstein, chairman of the Long Island Rail Road Commuter Council, said Monday that Prendergast has always been open to discussing riders» concerns about the railroad's performance and building plans.
Schumer said the cameras would help stop the widespread bad behavior by crews on the Long Island Rail Road that was exposed Sunday in The Post.
Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.
Viewed casually, his manner and presentation feel down - to - earth, rational and plain - spoken as he says Cuomo «created jobs,» helped during and after Sandy, and «solved» (meaning averted) a Long Island Rail Road strike.
The federal prosecutors, led by William Harrington, said Seminerio created a sham consulting agency, Marc Consultants, to squeeze $ 1 million out of Jamaica Hospital, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, Plaza College in Jackson Heights, the Long Island Rail Road and other organizations while in office.
«Sometimes someone has to say the king has no clothes,» Cuomo said at an event in Suffolk County, where he discussed the future of the Long Island Rail Road, which runs into Penn..
Amtrak said in 2014 that repairs would begin in 2019, but that has now been pushed back until after the Long Island Rail Road starts to run trains into Grand Central Terminal as part of the East Side Access project.
The shooter bought his gun legally and McCarthy, whose husband was killed and son critically wounded in a 1993 mass shooting on the Long Island Rail Road, said that in today's Internet - driven world, words can go a long way.
Kaminsky said a bad situation will get worse, at least in the short term: The Long Island Rail Road faces a 25 percent reduction in service this summer while Amtrak makes repairs to four tracks.
The Democratic governor says Wednesday that a Long Island Rail Road strike would hold riders «hostage.»
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«I am very upset about the whole thing,» said Joyce Gorycki of Mineola, widow of a Long Island Rail Road official killed in the 1993 train shooting and co-chair of Long Island's New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.
«If I'm adding all the projects that he announced today for transportation — things like LaGuardia [Airport], Penn Station, Long Island [Rail Road] third track, there's billions of dollars being thrown out,» he said.
After all, he's the man who will negotiate the new state budget and have a major say on such issues as raising the minimum wage, getting bad teachers out of the classroom and increasing funding for buses and subways, as well as Metro - North and the Long Island Rail Road.
Residents of communities along the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line came out in big numbers last night to speak against a $ 2 billion proposal to build a third track that they said would devastate their quality of life, and won't end delays as promised.
Embattled Long Island Rail Road president Patrick Nowakowski — whose service has been besieged by consumer complaints — will resign his post this week, transit sources said.
Long Island Rail Road customers will be able to use their smartphones to buy a ticket to and from anywhere in the system by the end of next month — four months earlier than originally planned, officials said.
She said ESD has begun talks with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority about increasing service at Belmont's Long Island Rail Road station, which is only part time.
«As from this first quarter, we should be able to begin to move petroleum products from Lagos by rail up to the north so that we reduce the impact of trailers and tankers on our roads,» he said.
A Long Island Rail Road train running late crashed at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal and came off the tracks during the Wednesday morning rush hour, injuring 103 people — some of whom were thrown from their seats, officials and witnesses said.
Federal investigators are scrutinizing a Long Island Rail Road engineer's sleep pattern, whether he texted and what he may have consumed during the 72 hours before the locomotive he was operating derailed Wednesday in Brooklyn, a spokesman for the NTSB said.
«Only their expansion can address the coming «capacity crunch» and deliver sustained growth,» it says, adding: «Even airports as large as Bristol and Luton suffer from congested roads and delay - prone rail links.
A Long Island Rail Road train that crashed in Brooklyn on Wednesday was going more than twice the speed limit when it slammed into a train station, injuring more than 100 people, federal investigators said.
The committee says there must also be more effort put into taking people off the road - it says a national road pricing scheme should be introduced as soon as possible, while greater emphasis must be placed on improving bus and rail services.