MTA to meet with LIRR unions
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MTA chairman: Workers would be 'crazy' to walk off job as LIRR strike threat looms
MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said the sides are making progress, but also said LIRR workers would be "crazy" to walk off the job.
The leaders of five Long Island Rail Road unions representing roughly half of the agency’s unionized workforce say contract talks with the MTA have stalled. The announcement comes eight days before the deadline for a strike, which would bring the nation ...
A Long Island Rail Road train hit debris Wedneday morning in one of the East River tunnels. No trains are going into Penn Station, according to LIRR officials.
For the first time in three decades, Long Island Rail Road workers could strike in just weeks, which would shut down all train service. The MTA is already getting buses ready. The LIRR system is the largest commuter rail network in the nation.
Service on the Long Island Rail Road was suspended in both directions between Montauk and Southampton on Friday morning.
Long Island Rail Road trains have been passing through Elmhurst, Queens for almost 100 years. Some neighbors and elected leaders want the trains to stop in the neighborhood again. They’re renewing calls for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reopen the former Elmhurst station on the LIRR’s Port Washington Branch.