Long Islanders are naturally skeptical but it’s improvements that we haven’t had before. Look at the pluses, not the minuses. We all should realize it’s an imperfect world but the LIRR is trying to make it a bit closer to perfect. I’m sure a lot of people will be happy about this but you can never eliminate the unhappiness in anything in life.
how about an update on what's going on with the new elmont-ubs arena station? The season starts next week and there is nothing listed about eastbound trains after the game. The lirr reps have no idea when I asked for an update. Getting there looks like no problem, but afterwards it looks like you still have to go to jamaica and come back eastbound. Takes 2 hours to get home? That doesnt work!
Do your research or at least listen before you comment. This is just one project. East Side Access, Penn Station Access, the purchase of new railcars, and the construction of new facilities and stations are associated with this project. We‘re also talking about the New York metropolitan area, not some rural shithole in Europe.
@@homelander33333 and to Jack Mehauf - This project was held up for decades. There is very limited space along the line, so people were afraid that they would lose their homes or businesses. Under the now despised (or not) Andrew Cuomo, the project was revived, with far tighter design, and a lot more effort to minimize space taken from home and business owners, and the effect the project would have on everything around it. Added were eliminations of several grade crossings, most by creating underpasses, rebuilding of stations and platforms, new power substations, lots of new, smooth track and ties. It was managed as a Design Build project - IOTW one master contractor who got incentive payments or paid fines based on speed and affect on communities. It is said to have come in a bit ahead of schedule and under budget, without the problems caused by most earlier projects having no one contractor with overall responsibility. To do this, they had to MOVE existing tracks, build new 3 track switching, add the 3rd track - in some cases in the middle, in some to right or left. There was pain - there were closures nearly every weekend over the last few years, but come a given Monday morning, where there had been an at grade crossing just months earlier, there was now a bridge and underpass - the bridge preconstructed close by and pushed in and connected over the weekend. They actually set new standards for such construction, and from what I can see, generally did a very good job. This was far more difficult than it may look to you. It still had to fight NIMBYISM, especially in Garden City, which tried to hijack the project, and which insisted that a replacement bridge in one location only has one lane passing under it. But common sense otherwise won out.
Do you know anything about the project? Try, for instance, at adding a lane to a highway that's narrow without taking up noticeably more space. In this case, a 3rd track where it's long thought there was no room to do so without destroying numerous homes and businesses.
1. A 3rd Track for Babylon should be considered imo. I think it isn't a bad idea, but it will ruin some station's designs. 2. You should definitely ride the LIRR. The LIRR is actually really quick and usually very safe, and comfortable to ride in. just a tad pricy tho that's it.
@@fermatachambersoloists Does improving infrastructure take precedence over out of control transit crime? Pretty arrogant of you but they are the among the first to be victims lmao
@@penitenttangent7346 You are comparing apples and oranges. Both are important but in different ways. One had to be solved by design and construction and the other has to be solved through legislation and its implementation by our elected officials whatever party they belong to and the criminal justice system.
@@1575murray Apparently priorities are out of order and you obviously are omitting intentional cost overruns. But yeah tell that infrastructure improvements trump transit safety to transit crime victims. Go on
@@penitenttangent7346 This improvement took many years to implement and the project was started in 2016 long before transit and other street crime became an issue again. Would you propose not fixing potholes and repaving the streets and letting them ruin our cars because of an increase in street crime? I am as pissed off at the MTA's delayed response to incidents on the LIRR as you are. My former home station in Valley Stream has been left to rot by the MTA since it was rebuilt in the 1990s in favor of other areas and the MTA has just been a big money pit since Rockefeller's vision led to its creation in the 1960s. However they finally got this project done and the East Side Access will open soon decades too late and way over budget. However we have to accept the things we cannot change.
Long Islanders are naturally skeptical but it’s improvements that we haven’t had before. Look at the pluses, not the minuses. We all should realize it’s an imperfect world but the LIRR is trying to make it a bit closer to perfect. I’m sure a lot of people will be happy about this but you can never eliminate the unhappiness in anything in life.
“This project is being delivered on time and $100 million under budget..." said MTA CEO Janno Lieber
Now that's impressive.
Great to hear the third track project has been completed. Excited for the future of the Long Island Railroad.
Is it? Not according to the monthly 3tc report I just received.
Nice NYAR RS40 cameo at 0:50
Keep up the good work mta 😊
how about an update on what's going on with the new elmont-ubs arena station? The season starts next week and there is nothing listed about eastbound trains after the game. The lirr reps have no idea when I asked for an update. Getting there looks like no problem, but afterwards it looks like you still have to go to jamaica and come back eastbound. Takes 2 hours to get home? That doesnt work!
Occasional wb service now starting.
Do the double track on the west hampstead
The soul train 🚂
🎉🎉🎉
Is it actually finished?
Finally!
Believe it when I see it guy is right
You know american public transit is pathetic when they call adding a 3rd track a mega project xD
When finished, it will add capacity. The big thing- overcoming the nimbys.
Do your research or at least listen before you comment. This is just one project. East Side Access, Penn Station Access, the purchase of new railcars, and the construction of new facilities and stations are associated with this project.
We‘re also talking about the New York metropolitan area, not some rural shithole in Europe.
Ikr? And it's expensive and taking years just lay down two continuous lines of metal? Wtf?
@@homelander33333 and to Jack Mehauf - This project was held up for decades. There is very limited space along the line, so people were afraid that they would lose their homes or businesses. Under the now despised (or not) Andrew Cuomo, the project was revived, with far tighter design, and a lot more effort to minimize space taken from home and business owners, and the effect the project would have on everything around it. Added were eliminations of several grade crossings, most by creating underpasses, rebuilding of stations and platforms, new power substations, lots of new, smooth track and ties. It was managed as a Design Build project - IOTW one master contractor who got incentive payments or paid fines based on speed and affect on communities. It is said to have come in a bit ahead of schedule and under budget, without the problems caused by most earlier projects having no one contractor with overall responsibility.
To do this, they had to MOVE existing tracks, build new 3 track switching, add the 3rd track - in some cases in the middle, in some to right or left. There was pain - there were closures nearly every weekend over the last few years, but come a given Monday morning, where there had been an at grade crossing just months earlier, there was now a bridge and underpass - the bridge preconstructed close by and pushed in and connected over the weekend. They actually set new standards for such construction, and from what I can see, generally did a very good job.
This was far more difficult than it may look to you. It still had to fight NIMBYISM, especially in Garden City, which tried to hijack the project, and which insisted that a replacement bridge in one location only has one lane passing under it. But common sense otherwise won out.
Do you know anything about the project? Try, for instance, at adding a lane to a highway that's narrow without taking up noticeably more space. In this case, a 3rd track where it's long thought there was no room to do so without destroying numerous homes and businesses.
i NEVER want to see that witch Hochul's face
forget the governor. The project itself was needed
Do a 3rd track for the Babylon Branch next. I’m still not taking the train though.
So why does your opinion matter if you won't and presumably have little to no experience with the train? Lol
1. A 3rd Track for Babylon should be considered imo. I think it isn't a bad idea, but it will ruin some station's designs.
2. You should definitely ride the LIRR. The LIRR is actually really quick and usually very safe, and comfortable to ride in. just a tad pricy tho that's it.
So dumb since it doesn’t solve crime lmao
Does improving highways solve road rage and traffic accidents?
@@fermatachambersoloists Does improving infrastructure take precedence over out of control transit crime? Pretty arrogant of you but they are the among the first to be victims lmao
@@penitenttangent7346 You are comparing apples and oranges. Both are important but in different ways. One had to be solved by design and construction and the other has to be solved through legislation and its implementation by our elected officials whatever party they belong to and the criminal justice system.
@@1575murray Apparently priorities are out of order and you obviously are omitting intentional cost overruns. But yeah tell that infrastructure improvements trump transit safety to transit crime victims. Go on
@@penitenttangent7346 This improvement took many years to implement and the project was started in 2016 long before transit and other street crime became an issue again. Would you propose not fixing potholes and repaving the streets and letting them ruin our cars because of an increase in street crime? I am as pissed off at the MTA's delayed response to incidents on the LIRR as you are. My former home station in Valley Stream has been left to rot by the MTA since it was rebuilt in the 1990s in favor of other areas and the MTA has just been a big money pit since Rockefeller's vision led to its creation in the 1960s. However they finally got this project done and the East Side Access will open soon decades too late and way over budget. However we have to accept the things we cannot change.