Map of planned 3rd track The first section ... There were six fatal collisions at grade crossing locations in the LIRR Main Line corridor between 2007 to 2017. Nearby residents will no longer ...

The state Department of Transportation seems ready to run out the clock on a $10 deal to help electrify Long Island’s busiest ...

The Long Island Rail Road’s long-anticipated venture to build a third track for its Main Line in Nassau County begins late this year with 10 major construction projects that will initiate the ...

MTA Long Island Rail Road has completed its main line Third Track Project on time and under budget, providing the LIRR with a 9.8-mile triple-track section from Floral Park to Hicksville. LIRR said ...

The Long Island Rail Road will suspend service this weekend between Hicksville and Mineola in order to remove and replace the Post Avenue Bridge. Weekend riders are urged to avoid travel on the ...

For the first time since the start of the automobile age, all Main Line street crossings of the Long Island Rail Road in New Hyde Park will have been eliminated starting Saturday, the Metropolitan ...

The third track project is part of the LIRR main line expansion project, which officials say now only has minor station work left to complete. Riders won't see major changes to schedules immediately.

and LIRR Main Line Third Track.” Specifically, LIRR proposes to add 44 morning rush hour peak-direction trains to Manhattan, increasing service by 58%, to 120 trains from the current 76. Total morning ...

Living a stone’s throw from the LIRR main line for 48 years has given me a front row seat of various iterations of the Third Track Project costing from $195 million to $1.2 billion. In the same ...

During peak times, the LIRR is forced to run trains in only one direction, which becomes a huge bottleneck whenever equipment breaks down or some other unforeseen delay arises. This main line ...

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- New York taxpayers aren't the only ones with questions about the governor's $2 billion third track expansion plan for the Long Island Rail Road's main line.