Heads up, commuters! Starting today, the LIRR will start full service at Grand Central Madison.
Full Long Island Rail Road service begins today at Grand Central Madison.Many commuters in Port Washington will now have to transfer to get to Penn Station.The MTA says they will "up" service by 41 percent, adding 271 additional trains per weekday.
For Jeremy Filner, also from Port Washington, it's going to be more like a nightmare, with added subway trains and long transitions to them in Grand Central Madison's cavernous new space."That's adding half an hour to my evening commute, which means my evening commute's looking at 2 hours minimum every night," Filner told Eyewitness News.
"The bottom line is Atlantic Terminal is going from 116 trains a day to 155 trains a day, it's going to have more frequent service in the peak, instead of having a train every 15 to 18 minutes, it's going to have a train every 12 minutes. And we are excited about how we think the Atlantic Terminal piece of our network is going to benefit from the way we are structuring things now," said Janno Leiber, MTA Chair and CEO.
In fact, in Port Washington, the much loved 38-minute express train is now gone in the evening commute."The Oyster Bay Branch and folks know this, have got some constraints on it physically. It's got one-track territory, some other constraints," Leiber said. "So again, the goal is for everybody to get a little bit more. And I hope that over time, people will start to realize that those Mineola connections, one after another, are going to be a plus.
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