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MTA to Keep Offering Discounted LIRR Rides to Atlantic Terminal

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  • Larry Penner
    Posted June 27, 2019 at 7:31 am

    Why didn’t the one year extension of the Long Island Rail Road’s “Atlantic Ticket” discount program as a response to the NYC Council’s “Commuter Rail Fare Equalization Proposal” for southeast Queens residents not include Rockaway residents who can access the Far Rockaway LIRR Station? This plan to start in several months will provide a discounted rush hour ticket of $5.00 versus $10.25 peak and $7.25 off peak. There is also a weekly seven day combined LIRR and NYC Transit subway pass for $60 versus $104.25. These reduced fares will be available for those who travel from Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn LIRR Terminal to stations in Queens Village, Hollis, St. Albans, Rosedale, Laurelton, Locust Manor, Jamaica, East New York and Nostrand Avenue but not Far Rockaway.

    The idea is to offer residents of under served transportation neighborhoods inexpensive faster transportation options using underutilized LIRR trains.

    Those NYC residents who already utilize either the LIRR, Metro North, MTA Bus or NYC Transit Express Bus are aware the cost is more than either the bus or subway. If you agree and follow the logic of this bill, there should be a reduction in the cost of any NYC Transit or MTA Express Bus Service from $6.50 to $2.75 as well. There are already almost 100,000 NYC residents who travel weekday to and from work paying extra to ride the LIRR, Metro North, MTA Express Bus, NYC Transit Express Bus or private ferry. All understand that they are paying for a premium service.

    Why shouldn’t Rockaway residents be able to join other Queens neighbors from Rosedale, Laurelton, Locust Manor, St. Albans, Bellrose, Queens Village, Hollis and Jamaica in being able to access the same discounts via the Far Rockaway LIRR Station for both $4.00 weekend City Zone and now new weekday ticket discounts? From the Far Rockaway LIRR Station in less than one hour, you can arrive at either Penn Station or Atlantic Terminal. Within 35 minutes, you can be at Jamaica LIRR Station.

    Who among Congressmember Gregory Meeks, Borough President Melinda Katz, State Senators Joseph Adabbo and James Sanders, Jr., State Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato, NYC Councilmembers I Daneek Miller and Eric Ulrich will be the first to address and resolve this injustice on behalf of Rockaway taxpayers and constituents on this issue? Your response should be of interest to Rockaway commuters especially come Election Day

    (Larry Penner is a transportation historian, writer and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office. This included the development, review, approval and oversight for billions in capital projects and programs for the MTA, NYC Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road MTA Bus, NYC Department of Transportion, New Jersey Transit with 30 other transit agencies in NY & NJ)
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  • Carl Perrera
    Posted June 28, 2019 at 6:00 pm

    This would be a good time for the MTA – Long Island Rail Road to reopen the Lower Level Woodhaven Junction Station to aide Ozone Park, Woodhaven and Richmond Hill passengers in commuting to Manhattan much faster than presently.

  • Phil Eng
    Posted July 1, 2019 at 5:31 pm

    So Eastern queens east of queens village is screwed over?

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  • Ted Lotz
    Posted March 22, 2022 at 8:44 pm

    This beautiful lirr infrastructure was beautiful and you paid for it to have a nice clean not crowded train it waslike first class onanairplane where you paid more for what you get now you have all eco omy seats trash e erywhere on these ni e trains and crowdi g an d drunks who re e tly spilled beer all over my wife comi g home fromwork thanks to barklycenter a nd the islander stadium why should i pay more than those 5 dollar tickets and get less quality on the train eachtrainshould have seating like the air planes have lets change theairlines to while your at it and on top of it the ones thatneed to get home after 12 hourshifts at work will gethome later because the nice express trainwe had has to runlocal now from atla tic to queens village geniouses

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