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• January 8, 2016 ions Special Section / Litmor Publicat A Blank Slate Media
LIRR’s 3rd track proposal is revived
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North Shore villages rail against the plan presented by governor Cuomo By N o a h M a N s k a r Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans Tuesday for a third Long Island Rail Road track, resurrecting a proposed project several North Shore communities have strongly opposed in the past. The project, part of a downstate infrastructure package in Cuomo’s proposed budget, would add a third track along 9.8 miles of LIRR’s Main Line between Floral Park and Hicksville. “Long Island’s future prosperity depends on a modern transportation network that eases congestion on our roads, improves service on the LIRR, helps this region’s economy and preserves the character of these great communities,” Cuomo said in a statement released after his Tuesday morning speech to the Long Island Association, a business group. Reportedly expected to cost $1 billion to $1.5 billion, the project
would reduce train delays and traffic congestion on east-west highways by allowing for more rushhour trains from New York City to Long Island, attracting reverse commuters and spurring economic growth, Cuomo’s office said. Trains on the Ronkonkoma, Port Jefferson Oyster Bay branches and some on the Montauk branch use the Main Line. Those trains stop at stations in Mineola, East Williston, Roslyn, PHOTO COURTESY OF SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Albertson, Floral Park, New Hyde At the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center New Leadership Group’s second annual toy Park and Merillon Avenue in Garden City. drive, Reese Grotas and Hannah Pollack helped gift wrap brand new toys to be donated to With only one track in each children in need this holiday season. See story on Page 3. direction, it’s hard to route trains around disabled trains or incidents on the tracks, causing “cascading delays rippling across the line,” Cuomo said. An additional track would be a much-needed upgrade to “the central spine of the busiest commuter railroad in the United States,” which has long been “at its heart very fragile,” LIRR President Patin the world right now, where er miles and credit card beneContinued on Page 50 B y N o a h M a N s k a r would I go?,” the 29-year-old fits, Streisand started planning Sitting in his hot, cramped Mineola resident and Wheatley a four-month trip that took him Brooklyn apartment in the School graduate asked himself to those places and many others. summer of 2012, David Strei- then. Antarctica and Australia From January through May sand felt he needed to get came to mind first. 2013, he traveled 142,500 away. A deft user of frequent-flyContinued on Page 51 “If I could be anywhere
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