MTA Long Island Rail Road

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MTA
Residents on an escalator in an MTA station.
New York City Transit, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad ridership and on-time performance have all improved in the first half of the year while customer satisfaction...
July 15, 2025
MTA
MTA LIRR presented with the APTA Gold Award for Security Operations at the 2025 APTA Rail Conference in San Francisco.
The seven agencies awarded an APTA Rail Safety and Security Award were evaluated based on the effectiveness, benefit level, innovation and transferability of some their projects...
July 2, 2025
MTA
A rendering of the M-9A passenger railcars.
The M-9A cars are needed to replace Metro-North Railroad's M-3 cars that are beyond their service life and allow the LIRR to retire its M-3 cars.
June 24, 2025
MTA
MTA Q70 blue bus waits outside terminal at LaGuardia for passengers to board
The project will create faster, more frequent and more reliable service on the Q70 LaGuardia Link bus line that connects the airport with the subway in Jackson Heights, N.Y., ...
March 31, 2025
MTA LIRR
MTA LIRR Mastic-Shirley station with LIRR train pulling into renovated station
The renovated station features a new plaza area and a reconstructed platform shelter.
March 17, 2025
MTA
MTA Metro-North Railroad train.
Metro-North Railroad saw a 100 percent on-time performance day across all three train lines for the 21st time on March 9 while Long Island Rail Road has seen a 2025 year-to-date...
March 13, 2025
Long Island Rail Road
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is investing $150 million to connect the LIRR's Ronkonkoma Station with the proposed North Terminal at MacArthur Airport,
The project will include a pedestrian walkway linking the airport and LIRR station, redesigned road networks and upgrades to various infrastructure to improve the passenger experience...
Feb. 13, 2025
Transit Tech Lab
The 13 companies who were selected by the Transit Tech Lab to participate in last year’s TTL challenges program will continue to work with the lab’s regional transportation agency partners in larger-scale pilots.
The pilot programs will continue to utilize technologies from the same transit tech companies who were selected in the Transit Tech Lab’s 2024 pilot challenges.
Feb. 11, 2025
MTA
MTA moving forward with planned capital projects in 2025
Many projects, including more reliable new subway cars, more efficient new LIRR locomotives, station accessibility improvements and signal upgrades to the A and C lines in Brooklyn...
Dec. 23, 2024
MTA
MTA releases RFP for engineering phase of Interborough Express .
The RFP represents a major step in the design of the transformative transit project, which will connect communities in Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y., to 17 subway lines, 51 current...
Oct. 30, 2024

Blogs

Larry Penner
Larry Penner
Some critical details were missing from New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's announcement that he has secured $72 million from the United States Department of Transportation for various...
Nov. 22, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner
The original Brooklyn Manhattan Rapid Transit and Interboro Rapid Transit shuttles subway systems were constructed and managed by the private sector with no government operating...
Oct. 25, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner
There is always an agreed upon baseline construction schedule between the MTA and the construction contractor.
Oct. 18, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner
The promise by the MTA that the purchase of 1,500 new NYC Transit subway and 500 new LIRR and Metro-North commuter rail cars will be delivered and in revenue service under the...
Oct. 4, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner
MTA will have to revise its proposed 2025 - 2029 Five Year Capital Plan to deal with a more realistic level of future funding. availability.
Sept. 27, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner
Depending upon where you live, consider the public transportation alternative. Try riding a local or express bus, paratransit or commuter van, ferry, light rail, commuter rail...
Sept. 20, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner
It is unfair to keep asking commuters to pay a higher fare and continue to see so many who routinely go unpunished for not paying their fare.
Aug. 30, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner.
The failure to initiate the new ferry service as recently announced by the city of Glen Cove, N.Y., Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck will result in the city having to pay back the Federal...
Aug. 16, 2024
Larry Penner
Larry Penner.
The number one priority for the MTA should always be to reach and maintain a state of good repair.
July 12, 2024
Larry Penner.
Electrification of the MTA LIRR Port Jefferson branch has been periodically advocated since the 1950s by generations of elected officials with no success.
June 7, 2024

Articles

STV
New Jersey Transit ALP-45DP
The transition to zero-emission technology on the bus side is well documented, yet significant challenges remain for passenger rail agencies to make a similar net-zero transition...
Feb. 18, 2025
Amtrak
Transit agencies, state DOT’s come together to celebrate See Tracks? Think Train® Week.
The week was launched by OLI in 2017 to focus attention on the importance of making safe choices when driving or walking near railroad tracks and trains.
Sept. 27, 2024
Boingo Wireless
The MTA is partnering with Boingo Wireless to expand wireless connectivity within MTA’s Grand Central Madison and LIRR stations.
The new wireless networks cover more than 18 miles of tunnels and are designed to make travel and commuting easier, faster and more convenient.
Dec. 7, 2023
Marc A. Hermann / MTA
Metropolitan Transportation Authority has completed the LIRR Third Track project, the centerpiece of a LIRR Main Line Expansion Project.
The 9.8-mile project wrapped on time and is reportedly $100 million below budget.
Oct. 4, 2022
Marc A. Hermann / MTA
Governor Kathy Hochul and MTA Chair and MTA CEO Janno Lieber announce the completion of the first portion of work to widen the Long Island Rail Road 33rd Street concourse in Penn Station on Tuesday, Sep 6, 2022.
The wider and brighter concourse is one element to overhaul the station into a ‘world-class transit hub.’
Sept. 7, 2022
Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul
May 31, 2022 - New York City — Governor Kathy Hochul is joined by MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber and Metro-North President/LIRR Interim President Catherine Rinaldi at Grand Central Terminal on Monday, May 31, 2022 to announce the branding of “Grand Central Madison.” The major capital construction project, previously known as “East Side Access,” brings LIRR service to Grand Central with a new concourse extending west toward Madison Avenue. (Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)
The terminal beneath Grand Central Terminal is the largest passenger rail terminal to be built in the U.S. since the 1950s and is on schedule to be completed in December 2022....
June 1, 2022
Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Lirr Patrick Cashin
The proposal calls for a rail connection for Queens and Brooklyn residents that would improve mobility into Manhattan, as well as around the surrounding communities.
Jan. 6, 2022
Airborne Studios and RCC
An overview of the entire project site for the LIRR Mid-Suffolk Train Yard. The 11 new tracks are seen at the right, as is the new employee facility.
Railroad Construction Company’s thorough planning, quality communication and flexibility set it up to successfully deliver LIRR’s New Mid-Suffolk Electric project.
June 8, 2021
Office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
The Moynihan Train Hall’s skylight includes an acre of glass. The hall also features a signature clock designed to evoke the nostalgia of rail travel.
The $1.6-billion train hall and improved NY Penn Station will operate as one complex designed for passenger comfort.
Jan. 4, 2021
Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Patrick Cashin
APTA awarded a Gold Award to Long Island Rail Road as part its Rail Safety Awards.
The annual recognition honors transit agencies for innovative and proactive safety and security programs.
Sept. 23, 2020

Additional content from MTA Long Island Rail Road

Long Island Rail Road
By the end of 2024, posters with a QR code will be adhered to the walls inside of the bathrooms on every LIRR train where they can be easily seen.
Riders and employees use a QR code to report any mess or complaint on bathroom tidiness in the stations to improve LIRR maintenance and efficiency.
Oct. 29, 2024
Long Island Rail Road
The new entrance is part of a public-private partnership in which BXP is redeveloping the site, which housed the MTA’s headquarters building from 1979 to 2014.
The agency is working to make traveling independently for people with disabilities a reality by giving blind, low vision and deaf or blind customers the ability to navigate its...
Oct. 2, 2024
Jacobs
MTA selects Jacobs as program management consultant for LIRR station improvements project.
Jacobs will provide program management services, overseeing construction and commercial management, design compliance and risk identification.
Sept. 27, 2024
MTA
LIRR train.
Posters with a QR code containing a survey that is unique to each station will be adhered to the walls inside of the restrooms where they can be easily seen.
June 26, 2024
MARTA
MARTA accepts its Rail Emergency Management Award at the 2024 APTA Rail Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 4, 2024.
The six agencies awarded an APTA Rail Safety and Security Award were evaluated based on the effectiveness, benefit level, innovation and transferability of some their projects...
June 5, 2024
Larry Penner
Work needs to be completed on the Portal Bridge North, followed by the start and completion of Portal Bridge South.
May 24, 2024
MTA
OMNY logo.
The MTA is utilizing OMNY as its contactless fare payment system to give subway and bus customers a simpler way to pay for their fares using credit or debit card, smartphone, ...
May 22, 2024
MTA
A new report from the MTA's C&D revealed the agency saved nearly $300 million in capital program cost savings as part of its 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Strategic Plan.
The report comes as the agency prepares to move forward on a major slate of vital capital projects to be funded by congestion pricing.
May 8, 2024
MTA
The MTA LIRR.
LIRR assets have shifted control several times in its long history, but it remains a part of the New York City regional transportation landscape.
April 26, 2024
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Rob Free.
Free had been serving as LIRR’s acting president for the past six months.
April 12, 2024
Larry Penner.
Recent news reported overtime for MTA employees grew to a record $1.4 billion in 2023.
April 12, 2024
Larry Penner
The next phase of a major reconfiguration of the Harold Interlocking will be disappointing to thousands of daily riders.
March 29, 2024