LIRR Service Changes Affecting Mineola Effective for the Next Two Weekends
October 20, 2021
Crews to Perform Switch Work as Part of LIRR Main Line Expansion Project and Lay Steel Girders for Future Elmont Station
Service Changes Affecting Mineola Effective for the Next Two Weekends
Customers Encouraged to Use the Babylon Line, Ample Shuttle Service Also Being Provided
Cross Island Parkway Closed Sunday, Oct. 24 for Work on Elmont Station
Long Island Rail Road crews will perform switch work near Queens Village as part of the Main Line Expansion Project during the weekends of Oct. 23-24 and 30-31, and crews will use the track outage to put steel girders in place as part of the MTA’s Long Island Rail Road Elmont station project on Sunday, Oct. 24.
This critical infrastructure work will require both existing Main Line tracks to be taken out of service for 48 hours each weekend between New Hyde Park and Hicksville, resulting in service changes on the Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma Branches and schedule adjustments on the LIRR’s other branches.
There will be no train service to New Hyde Park, Merillon Avenue, Mineola, Carle Place, or Westbury. All service to and from Bethpage Station will provided by the shuttle trains between Babylon and Hicksville.
On Sunday, Oct. 24, the Southbound Cross Island Parkway will be closed from midnight - 6 p.m. and the Northbound side will be closed from 3 a.m. – 9 a.m.