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The first Long Island Rail Road train into Manhattan’s East Side ran Wednesday. The $11 billion East Side Access project was decades in the making.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced Long Island Rail Road service to Grand Central Madison will begin Wednesday, operating on a limited basis.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s plan to have police expand their patrols to subway stations might be derailed by officer shortages in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

New York Republicans rallied against Governor Hochul’s decision to proceed with the state’s congestion pricing plan.

The first section of track includes Queens Village to Merillon Avenue in Garden City. The second section, with service to Carle Place, is scheduled to open on Aug. 29.

A feasibility study found the LIRR project would be too expensive and inconvenient to implement. Retrofitting the current cars with batteries would cost $26 million a pair. That’s more than it would cost to buy two brand new train cars.

New York is inching toward becoming the first U.S. city to charge motorists an extra fee for entering its most congested areas.

The MTA is running out of emergency federal aid.

Commuter rail ridership is still far below than before the pandemic, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is running out of the emergency federal aid that it received.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman joined the Town of North Hempstead to demand that the Long Island Rail Road keep its express train service on the Port Washington branch.