(The following story by Mitchell Freedman appeared on the Newsday website on April 15.)
NEW YORK — East End Shuttle riders have reason to rejoice – three days a week.
The Long Island Rail Road’s special service, created last year to help people get around construction delays on County Road 39 in Southampton, will continue to run on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until late June.
The LIRR originally had agreed to provide extra round-trip trains between Speonk and East Hampton and Montauk while County Road 39 was being widened to four lanes.
The shuttle service started in October and was to end on Memorial Day, when the road work was expected to be finished.
Then, the work on County Road 39 was completed seven weeks early.
The railroad, after getting requests from local schools whose teachers and other staff found taking the train better than driving, has agreed to keep the shuttle going until public schools let out in June.