LIRR UPGRADES

During the weekends of April 18 and 25, the LIRR will continue its signal upgrades between Floral Park and Queens Village stations as part of the Queens Interlocking project. The LIRR will also be taking advantage of this outage to rehabilitate the Hilton Avenue grade crossing.

Queens Interlocking Signal Pre-Testing

For these weekends, the following service changes will be in effect:

There will be no Hempstead Branch service operating, however there are some unique service changes in effect:

• For Hollis, Queens Village, and Elmont-UBS Arena, there will be westbound train service via Huntington Branch trains

• There will be no eastbound train service at these stations

• NYCT will cross honor riders in both directions between Jamaica, Hollis and Queens Village

• For Floral Park, service will be available in both directions on Huntington Branch trains

• For Stewart Manor, Nassau Boulevard, Garden City and Hempstead, we will provide bus service to and from Mineola

• For Bellerose and Country Life Press, NICE Bus will accept LIRR tickets on nearby routes

• Ronkonkoma Branch service will be reduced to hourly in both directions

Hilton Avenue Grade Crossing Rehabilitation

At a high level, the LIRR will be removing the existing rubber pads, intervening asphalt paving and installing new concrete pads and repaving this crossing. Road closures will be managed by MTAPD. This work will be conducted from each Friday night (April 17 and April 24) at 10:00 p.m. until the following Monday morning (April 20 and 27) at 4:00 a.m. Once work is complete on these weekends, LIRR crews will return at a later date to complete the final paving of the crossing.

This work usually happens a week or so later and requires a 12-hour window, generally in the overnight hours. Ahead of these changes, riders are encouraged to use the TrainTime app to plan their rides as well as check the MTA’s planned services webpage.