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LIRR Labor Day Weekend Service Plan Info

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on September 2nd, 2011 at 3:11 am

Here is the complete LIRR Labor Day weekend service plan info courtesy of a press release:

The MTA Long Island Rail Road will provide additional early-afternoon service from Penn Station on Friday, September 2 for customers planning an early getaway for the start of the Labor Day Weekend.

The LIRR will be operating on a weekend schedule on September 3rd and 4th and a Sunday/holiday schedule on September 5th. Please note that the additional Sunday afternoon Montauk Branch westbound trains from Montauk and the Hamptons will not operate on Sunday, September 4, but instead operate on Monday, September 5. The regular Monday-only return train from Montauk and the Hamptons will not run on Monday, September 5th, but instead will operate on Tuesday, September 6.

The extra early-afternoon trains will depart Penn Station starting at 2:10 PM on September 2. The extra service will include: three trains on the Port Jefferson Branch; three on the Babylon Branch; two on the Port Washington Branch; one on the Far Rockaway Branch, and two trains to Jamaica for Montauk train connections. The eastbound afternoon train from Ronkonkoma to Yaphank gets extended to Greenport on Friday, as it normally does on Fridays during the summer through Columbus Day weekend.

Extra Train Service from Penn Station, Friday, September 2

Port Jefferson Branch to Hicksville and Huntington:

2:10 PM stopping at Jamaica, Mineola, then all stops to Huntington.

2:29 PM stopping at Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Jamaica, New Hyde Park, then all stops to Huntington.

3:24 PM stopping at Jamaica, Mineola, Westbury and Hicksville.

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Babylon Branch:

2:24 PM express to Lynbrook, then all stops to Babylon.

3:00 PM stopping at Jamaica, Rockville Centre, then all stops to Babylon.

3:31 PM express to Rockville Centre, then all stops to Babylon.

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Port Washington Branch to Great Neck:

3:18 PM stopping at Woodside, Flushing-Main Street, then all stops to Port Washington

3:40 PM stopping at Woodside, Flushing-Main Street, then all stops to Great Neck.

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Far Rockaway Branch:

3:48 PM express to Locust Manor then all stops to Far Rockaway.

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Montauk Branch (Penn Station to Jamaica with Montauk Connections):

1:45 PM to Jamaica, with a Montauk train connection.

3:58 PM to Jamaica, with a Montauk train connection.

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Ronkonkoma Branch to Greenport:

The 5:21 PM train from Ronkonkoma to Yaphank is extended on Friday making all stops to Greenport.

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Metro-North Labor Day Wknd Service Info

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on September 2nd, 2011 at 2:17 am

Here is the service plan for the Metro-North for the upcoming Labor Day Weekend:

It’s the last big weekend of summer and MTA Metro-North Railroad is ready to take you away with 16 extra getaway trains on the Friday before the Labor Day Weekend.

On Friday, September 2, leaving Grand Central Terminal in the early afternoon, there are four extra trains on the Hudson Line, four extra trains on the Harlem Line and eight extra trains on the New Haven Line.

In the late PM peak, after most people are long gone, nine trains are cancelled.

Saturday and Sunday trains will operate on a regular weekend schedule. Also on Sunday is the Golden Apple Bicycle Tour in Goldens Bridge, NY. Metro-North is suspending its requirement that people have bike permits all day on all Harlem Line trains. The railroad also is waiving its limit on the number of bicycles that can be aboard trains leaving Grand Central between 5:40 AM and 8:46 AM and leaving Goldens Bridge between 12:28 PM and 6:28 PM

On Monday, Metro-North trains will be operating on a holiday schedule.

Also, for folks returning to New York City Monday, there will be three extra inbound trains on the New Haven Line from New Haven arriving in the late afternoon and evening.

All extra trains are shown in the current public timetable.

Here is a summary of changes to connecting services on Friday September 2:

Hudson Rail Link will operate a peak level of buses beginning with the 3:20PM train from Grand Central with normal service for the remainder of the evening.

Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry will operate an early ferry trip to meet the 2:54PM train from Grand Central, which arrives in Ossining at 3:39PM. The 5:57PM and 6:20PM trains will not operate. Instead, a 6:00PM train from Grand Central, which arrives Ossining at 6:51PM, will operate and be met by the ferry.

Newburgh-Beacon Ferry will have early ferry trips meeting trains departing from Grand Central at: 2:50PM, 3:30PM and 4:05PM. The ferry meeting the 4:10PM train from New York will operate approximately 10 minutes late. The 5:31PM train from Grand Central will instead leave at 5:34PM, arriving Beacon at 6:53PM. There will be normal service for the remainder of the evening.

Other connecting services will operate on a normal schedule on Friday.

On Labor Day, Monday September 5, connecting services will not operate except for the Tappan Zee Express, which will operate on a Saturday schedule.

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SI Railway Get Away Service

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on September 2nd, 2011 at 2:04 am

As is always the case, the MTA Staten Island Railway will be running its “Get Away” service for the start of the Labor Day weekend. Full details via press release:

Staten Island customers looking to get a head start on their holiday weekend will be able to catch earlier afternoon express train service on Friday, September 2 with Staten Island Railway’s Early Departure Getaway schedule. This schedule means extra SIR trains will be added earlier in the afternoon beginning at 2:31 p.m. from the St. George Ferry Terminal. There will be one express train and one local train awaiting every boat until 7:50 p.m. On Labor Day, SIR will operate a Sunday schedule.

The Early Departure Getaway service plan on SIR is also available on the Friday leading into the Memorial Day weekend, Independence Day weekend, Christmas and New Year’s. It will also operate on the day before Thanksgiving.

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West Indian-American Day Service Alert

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on September 2nd, 2011 at 1:52 am

With the West Indian-American Day Celebration set for this Monday, the MTA has sent out a service alert press release:

The West Indian-America Day Carnival will be held on Monday, September 5, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Staging for the parade will take place on Eastern Parkway at Buffalo Avenue. The parade route will be along Eastern Parkway from Schenectady Avenue to Grand Army Plaza and south on Flatbush Avenue ending at Empire Boulevard. The reviewing stand will be in front of the Brooklyn Museum.

The 4 train will operate on the local track making all local stops in Brooklyn. In order to avoid crowding at the Franklin Avenue-Botanic Garden (2, 3, 4, S) station, customers should consider using the following stations: Prospect Park (Q, S), Grand Army Plaza (2, 3, 4), Nostrand Avenue (3.4), Kingston Avenue (3, 4) and Utica Avenue (3, 4). Please note that the Eastern Parkway (2, 3, 4) station will be closed between the hours of 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Monday.

Also, due to crowding at the Utica Avenue station (3, 4), NYC Transit personnel along with NYPD officers will direct customers to exit at the Schenectady Avenue end of the station. This will allow for the use of the Utica Avenue end as “entrance only.”

The J’ouvert Parade will be on Monday, September 5 from 3 a.m. to 10 a.m. This is the pre-parade before the West Indian-American Day Parade. The parade route is south on Flatbush Avenue from Grand Army Plaza to Empire Boulevard, east on Empire Boulevard to Nostrand Avenue, and south on Nostrand Avenue to Linden Boulevard. In order to alleviate crowding in the street around the Church Avenue 2 station, trains will skip Church Avenue from 10 p.m. Sunday, September 4 through 4 a.m. Monday, September 5.

The bus routes serving Crown Heights that will be affected by the festivities are the B14, B17, B41, B43, B44, B45, B46 and B49.

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Metro-North Expands Bus Service

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on September 2nd, 2011 at 1:41 am

With service on the Port Jervis line remaining suspended for the near future due to damage from Hurricane Irene, the MTA began running expanded bus service for customers. Here are the details:

Beginning Thursday, Port Jervis Line customers can board MTA buses at Port Jervis or Middletown to take them over the Hudson Line to the Beacon Station for the trip to Grand Central Terminal.

Bus service from the Harriman Station to Ramsey/Route 17 where customers can transfer to NJTransit train service will continue. So customers will have a choice of getting to Hoboken or Penn Station, NY or Grand Central Terminal.

Train service on the Port Jervis Line has been suspended indefinitely because of the catastrophic damage to the track and signal systems caused by Hurricane Irene.

The 110 parking spaces at Port Jervis and 750 spaces in Middletown will help alleviate crowding at Harriman, which has 1,000 spaces. On Tuesday, only 300 people parked at Harriman and used the bus service, which is being provided by Leprechaun Bus. But Wednesday, as roads have been cleared, 800 people used the buses from Harriman.

Buses to Beacon, with the exception of one round trip in the afternoon, will originate at Port Jervis Station, stop at Middletown Station, then go directly to Beacon Station on the Hudson Line for train service to Grand Central; outbound is the reverse.

In addition, customers can use their Port Jervis Line commutation ticket on the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry or the Newburgh-Beacon Shuttle Bus.

Port Jervis Line commutation tickets will be honored for travel on the Hudson Line. Customers also can park at Beacon or Cortlandt stations on the Hudson Line.

Valid LAZ permits will be honored at these locations. Parking at these stations will be provided for those customers for the remainder of this week, although a permit does not guarantee a space.

The full extent of the Hurricane Irene’s damage on the Port Jervis Line is still being determined, as much of the line remains inaccessible and under water. Through a combination of observations made on the ground and from a helicopter courtesy of the Westchester County Police, Metro-North work crews have observed significant washouts and fallen trees at numerous locations along the tracks west of Suffern.

Some of the more significant issues that have been identified to date are as follows:

• Three washout locations of 1,000 feet each near Sloatsburg

• A 400-foot section of track south of Sloatsburg is washed out to a depth of 8 feet

• Significant damage to railroad bridges

• Suspected significant damage to the signal system which was under water.

Metro-North will retain an engineering firm to perform a thorough inspection of infrastructure to determine the full extent of necessary repairs and determine required environmental permitting. Major construction work would follow. While no final determination can be made until this investigation is completed, it will take a number of months to rebuild the track, signal and bridge infrastructure that will be required to reinstitute train service.

Busing to Beacon Station from Port Jervis and Middletown: Weekdays Weekends

Busing to/from Harriman and Ramsey Route 17: Weekdays (Weekday buses follow the train schedule.) Weekends

In addition, customers can use their Port Jervis Line commutation ticket on the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry or the Newburgh-Beacon Shuttle Bus.

For more information click here.

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