LIRR

The MTA plans to continue salting and clearing platforms and stairways at the LIRR and Metro North through Monday afternoon, Jan. 26, according to its website.

As part of an overhaul on safety and security structure at Metro-North, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is adding inward and outward facing video cameras to over 2,000 rail cars.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority reached a contract agreement on Thursday with unions representing workers on the Long Island Rail Road, averting a strike that would lead to nightmare commutes for many of the railroad’s 300,000 daily riders.

The MTA, operator of the Long Island Rail Road, is negotiating with rail workers on a contract. A strike looms Sunday, July 20.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and unions representing 5,400 Long Island Railroad workers are set to resume negotiations.

The unions representing the nation’s largest commuter railroad said that contract talks with the MTA have collapsed, making a strike this weekend much more likely.

A record 36,000 riders took the Long Island Railroad Saturday to attend the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, N.Y.

Long Island Rail Road workers will start punching in and out via fingerprint, using a biometric time clock system.