Sentences with phrase «many rail roads»

With fewer platforms available, the repair work will complicate schedules for the three rail operators that use Penn Station: the national rail corporation Amtrak and the regional commuter train operators New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Road.

More than 100 people were injured after a Long Island Rail Road train crashed into Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York.

The Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Railroad were reporting delays on commuter lines.

Under the MTA's previously - existing 2015 - 2019 capital program, Arts for Transit was allotted $ 1.7 million a part of the East Side Access project, which looks to extend the Long Island Rail Road from Penn Station to Grand Central, all earmarked for 2016.

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.»

I was surprised when I told that blacks still lived on one side of the rails road tracks an whites on the others.

As a matter of fact the French government has reduced the value added tax on theme parks from 18.6 % to 7 %, lent 4 billion francs at preferential rates and provided 2.7 billion francs in infrastructure improvements, such as highways and rail roads.

Sponsorship: To display corporate identity, logos, or branded information on approximately 40 Portable Commissary Carts used for the sale of non-alcoholic beverages, beer, wine, liquor and snacks located at Metro - North's Grand Central Terminal and Long Island Rail Road's high traffic stations such as Pennsylvania Station.

METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY Corporate Sponsorship for Portable Commissary Sales Carts & Non-Alcoholic Beverage Pouring Rights License for Long Island Rail Road -LSB-...]

Corporate Sponsorship for Portable Commissary Sales Carts & Non-Alcoholic Beverage Pouring Rights License for Long Island Rail Road and Metro - North Railroad

Garden City is known for its tree lined streets; myriad activities for children; and is an easy commute to New York City from nearby Long Island Rail Road stations.

Well the safety part was put to the test when our baby girl was 7 weeks old, we were rear ended while at a dead stop by a big rail road truck, all we could think about was our precious and helpless baby girl in the backseat.

Joe Lhota, the MTA Board chairman, assured commuters that the Long Island Rail Road's improved performance over the summer months will continue well after full service is restored at Penn Station on Tuesday.

The economic pain from Penn Station's crumbling infrastructure and the Long Island Rail Road's service disruptions could last years, rippling beyond train riders and the businesses where they work.

The bill is aimed at providing relief to Long Island commuters, who primarily benefit from travel to and from New York City with the Long Island Rail Road.

While Long Island Rail Road workers feast on overtime, its service is the worst it's been in nearly two decades, according to a state report released yesterday.

The town of Oyster Bay has filed a lawsuit against two contractors that worked on the troubled Hicksville parking garage that serves the Long Island Rail Road.

The head of the Long Island Rail Road unveiled a turnaround plan for the commuter rail line, which last year slumped to its worst on - time performance in almost two decades.

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.»

The Long Island Rail Road's anti-fraud custom of listing «M» and «F» genders on fare cards discriminates against transgender people and should be stopped, according to New York City Public Advocate Letitia James.

At Cuomo's request, the MTA will give Long Island Rail Road commuters a 25 percent discount while operations are disrupted because of repairs at Penn Station this summer.

The Long Island Rail Road in January posted its worst on - time performance in more than two decades.

It's last call for alcohol on the Long Island Rail Road.

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.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R - Shirley) announced Thursday 11 union endorsements in his re-election bid, including the Suffolk County Correction Officers Association, Smart Transportation Divison of the Long Island Rail Road, Transport Workers Union Local 252 and Plumbers Local Union No. 200.

Politico New York article on BP Adams urging the MTA to offer reduced fares for the Long Island Rail Road to address subway overcrowding issues.

amNewYork article on BP Adams announcing the launch of Freedom Ticket, a new pilot program that will enable riders to transfer seamlessly between the city's buses and subways and the Long Island Rail Road.

A new rail storage yard path in Brooklyn could make a difference for thousands of Long Island Rail Road commuters.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a historic $ 5.6 billion transformation of the Long Island Rail Road to strengthen the region's transportation infrastructure and usher in a new era of economic growth.

«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.

On Wednesday morning, a Long Island Rail Road train coming from Far Rockaway failed to come to a complete stop as it entered Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal, injuring 104 commuters, according to the latest numbers from the Fire Department of New York.

The transformation and maintenance of the Long Island Rail Road is integral to Long Island's future and critical to the health of our downtowns and Long Island's economy.»

«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.

amNewYork article on Borough President Adams emphasizing the urgent need to implement the Freedom Ticket allowing straphangers to ride the Long Island Rail Road at discounted rates.

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.

After 70 years of stagnation, all 100 transformative LIRR capital projects are moving forward, including the Main Line Third Track, Double Track, Jamaica Station Reconstruction, 39 renovated Long Island Rail Road stations and grade crossing eliminations — modernizing transportation across the region to provide a state - of - the - art system for Long Island.

«So that's even more reason why the MTA / Long Island Rail Road should be withholding our lease payments.»

«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.

Two months after she proposed the plan, the Long Island Rail Road has agreed to City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley's (D - Middle Village) request to let the community turn a dilapidated newsstand in Ridgewood into open space for the community.

At Nassau County's other major development project, the Hub in Uniondale, the LIA is calling for a rapid bus service to the Long Island Rail Road stations in Hempstead Village and Mineola, and for three pedestrian bridges to nearby Hofstra University, Nassau Community College and the RXR Plaza offices.

«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.

Lhota again urged Long Island Rail Road riders to «seriously consider» transit options for getting to and from Manhattan as commuters crossed their fingers in anticipation of what awaited this morning.

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.

At 2:30 p.m., state Sen. John Brooks, Assembly members Christine Pellegrino and Kimberly Jean - Pierre, along with local elected officials, call for the installation of elevators in Long Island Rail Road stations, Amityville Long Island Rail Road Station, John Street, Amityville.

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.

Cuomo took a victory lap to celebrate approval in the state Senate of a nearly $ 2 billion plan to build a third track for the Long Island Rail Road on its Main Line in Nassau.

State Senate Republicans won't block the Long Island Rail Road's proposed third track, clearing the last major hurdle to move the $ 2 billion project forward.