After decades of debate, $2 billion LIRR third track project is a go

(Source: Innovate Long Island, December 13, 2017)

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — All aboard – the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved a roughly $2 billion deal to design and build the Long Island Rail Road’s long-debated “third track.” The five-year LIRR Expansion Project aims to construct a third LIRR line to ease a nearly 10-mile bottleneck between Hicksville and the Queens border, a critical pressure point legendary for service disruptions and delays.

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