Queens riders rejoice LIRR return after strike
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Long Island Rail Road riders in Queens rejoiced on Tuesday as the nation’s busiest rail line started up again after a worker strike suspended train service for three days.
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LIRR strike causes massive headaches in Queens
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Queens, home to four times as many LIRR stations as the rest of the boroughs combined, felt the pain on Monday as the LIRR workers’ strike entered its third day – and first weekday.
Read MoreMTA to swap F and M trains next week
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The MTA will be permanently swapping two Queens train routes to improve congestion issues in Western Queens and Roosevelt Island, agency brass announced Wednesday.
Read MoreQueens residents divided over IBX
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After years of garnering excitement almost exclusively, the state’s plan to build a light rail through parts of Queens and Brooklyn ruffled some feathers at a public hearing in Middle Village earlier this month.
Read MoreState to begin crucial environmental review of IBX
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The state’s effort to build the Interborough Express, a new light-rail line from Jackson Heights to Southern Brooklyn, took a major step forward last week when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began its environmental review of the project.
Read MoreQueens buses are slow and often late, report says
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Queens buses are slower, and less on time than the city average, a new report from the comptroller’s office says.
Read MoreOpinion: Eliminating stops on the Q47 is a step in the wrong direction
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“For a corporate center that hosts more than a thousand employees every day — including staff at the Department of Corrections, Skanska, numerous firms and the headquarters of the Queens Chamber of Commerce — this change is more than an inconvenience. It is a step backward for our borough’s economy.”
Read MoreConfusion and catharsis as Queens bus redesign rolls into final stop
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This week, the MTA is rolling out the second and final phase of the implementation of their redrawn Queens bus maps. The rollout marks the end of an arduous 6-year process to rework the borough's bus routes with the goal of making buses faster and more frequent.
Read MoreStudents rally for QueensLink project
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Queens College students rallied in Rego Park on Wednesday, calling for the city and mayoral candidates to invest the city’s cash into resurrecting an old train line in Southeast Queens.
Read MoreQueensLink could see new life under Mamdani administration
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QueensLink, an ambitious and expensive transportation proposal for the World’s Borough has been put on the backburner under the current mayoral administration – but that could change if Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor in November.
Read MoreThe Queens Bus Redesign will – finally – launch on Sunday
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More than half a decade after it was first pitched, the MTA officially announced the launched the long-awaited redesign of the Queens bus map on Thursday.
Read MoreQueens bus network redesign gets official launch date
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The MTA on Monday said that after years of starts and stops, drafts, final drafts, do-overs and approved plans, it finally has set a date for the implementation of its overhaul of Queens’ bus map.
Read MoreDespite funding questions, MTA rolls on with the IBX
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While funding for the ambitious Interborough Borough Express is still in limbo, the MTA is going full throttle on the proposed Brooklyn-Queens connector.
Read MoreMTA to hold open houses on IBX
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The MTA will soon hold a series of public town halls on their ambitious plan to build a light rail from Queens to Brooklyn, even as funding for the project remains in question.
Read MoreG line gets open-gangway cars
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The G train is getting some new life as two new open-gangway train cars were deployed on the city’s only Queens-Brooklyn connector on Tuesday.
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