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Just a little diversion of this topic. Just west of Hicksville station, there are concrete pilings and retaining walls going up on the north side of the ROW. What's going on here ? Anything to do with the third track project ? Yep. Part of the Hicksville project includes taking the north track sidi...

MTA Press Release; the 60 new cars were approved today, with an option for another 34 cars (so potentially 94 in total) Looks like Christmas came early! http://www.mta.info/press-release/metro-north/mta-metro-north-railroad-receive-94-additional-m8-cars-new-haven-line" onclick="window.open...

Don't know, but in the 2015-2019 capital program book the funding for that project is listed under the year 2019, so it's probably several years away.

At least the MTA is adding ASC between Ronkonkoma and Yaphank. That will cut a few mins off trip times, right? It's not much but I guess you have to take that first step somewhere.

It's nice to see the LIRR doing something to improve East End service, but if this is just going to be the same old schedule of 2 round trips a day that's literally impossible for people living on the North Fork to use to go to NYC, why bother? Out of curiosity, how many round trips could a Greenpo...

LIRR plans to restore weekend service between Ronkonkoma and Greenport all year long: Link LIRR customers no longer have to wait until summer to take a ride to Greenport. MTA Long Island Rail Road President Patrick A. Nowakowski announced that the LIRR plans to provide weekend service to Greenport o...

Newsday: $10B East Side Access project falling further behind schedule ... Last week, at a meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Capital Program Oversight Committee, project executive Bill Goodrich revealed that since February construction delays at the busy Harold Interlocking in L...

Sunnyside station seems to still be planned, the MTA's capital program includes $76.5 million to design and build the station. (pages 155 and 226)

MTA Press Release: LIRR Expansion Project Moves Forward Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced major steps forward for the Long Island Rail Road Expansion Project, including a continued commitment to community outreach by holding four public meetings, expedited modifications to all train crossings a...

A new Shore Line East timetable will go into effect Monday, April 4, 2016. The following are notes regarding the new schedule: WEEKDAY westbound morning train 1627 will depart all stops 3 minutes earlier, departing Old Saybrook station at 5:37 a.m. and arriving at New Haven Union Station at 6:22 a....

I apologize if this has been answered previously, but has there been any mention of the desired/proposed # of trains per hour that would run into NYP? This is from a presentation the MTA made about Penn Station Access in 2013; the information is on page 11 (although the PowerPoint numbers it as pag...

One of the tracks at Guilford is not electrified, right? Aside from that, what other infrastructure needs to be modified/expanded before the M8s can run?

Does the "we will not have to take any residential land at all" refer only to the 3rd track or does it include the grade-crossing eliminations? It's it the latter I'd love to see what kind of magical engineering the MTA/Cuomo have planned to do all that without needing any land (I admit, I...

Ahhh, here we go: Cuomo seeks Nassau villages’ support for LIRR third track from Newsday Cuomo seeks Nassau villages’ support for LIRR third track Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is considering eliminating seven LIRR at-grade crossings as part of his $1 billion proposal to build a third track on the railroad’s...

There was a meeting some time last week. The mayors from the villages along the planned third track were invited to a meeting where Governor Cuomo said that the purpose of the third track was to give the route redundancy. It would allow trains to bypass delayed trains and also allow reverse commuti...