The LIRR Expansion Project’s Community Information Center in Mineola, at 114 Old Country Road (between Willis Avenue and Roslyn Road) is open. Residents of communities along the Expansion Project are invited to come review new exhibits about the project and ask questions. The hours are posted on www.lirrexpansion.com.
Representatives from the LIRR Expansion Project team met with leaders from the Garden City Public School system to discuss ongoing construction activities and to coordinate these activities with school bus routes. The LIRR Expansion Project team continues to seek ways to work closely with communities and to reduce the project’s…
On October 4th the Village of Garden City hosted representatives of 3TC and MTACC/LIRR for a discussion of how the LIRR Expansion Project will affect the village. The event was part of an ongoing community outreach initiative.
Since the approval of the third track project last year, MTA officials have wasted no time in rolling out plans across the 9.8-mile stretch from Floral Park to Hicksville.
As part of its commitment to protect the communities along the LIRR Expansion Project, 3rd Track Constructors (3TC, the project’s design-builder) continues to gather baseline data to monitor noise levels at project locations. 3TC is doing everything it can to make sure its work has the least impact possible on…
“Since the 1940s, people talked about adding a third track and modernizing the Main Line corridor - and now we’re actually doing it.” - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Forty percent of LIRR riders pass through the LIRR’s congested Main Line. That’s one among many reasons why the project to modernize…
Wi-Fi has been successfully installed at all stations along the LIRR Expansion Project-Floral Park to Hicksville. These stations are: Floral Park New Hyde Park Merillon Avenue Mineola Carle Place Westbury Hicksville Wi-Fi is now accessible on the platform at each of these stations and free for LIRR customers.
U.S. News and World Report has crunched the numbers for 2018, releasing its annual list of best high schools in the country, ranking the schools on a national and a state level, and Garden City High School made the list. Not a single Long Island school cracked the Top 10…
Long Island is in the midst of historic change. For years, as other regions invested in areas like quality, affordable rental housing, mixed-use development, and public transit, LI was content with the status quo.
We sat silent as we watched droves of young people — educated in our outstanding public schools at significant expense — leave home and help create economic growth in other regions of our country.
On Monday the Village of Garden City posted a Memorandum of Understanding with the Long Island Rail Road and MTA for the Third Track Expansion project, which cuts through Garden City with the plans for 9.8 miles of new rail service between Floral Park and Hicksville. At the Village Board…
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