More Trains Bound For Mineola

JANET BURNS

jburns@antonmediagroup.com

With the LIRR’s new schedules now in effect, Nassau County residents are showing a range of reactions, depending on where they frequently have to go and when, and of course where they live. The overall effect of the changes is a 41 percent increase in weekly service, according to the MTA, which the agency says includes a 51 percent increase in service to Mineola as more trains and transferees stop off in the county seat.

Janno Leiber, MTA Chair and CEO, told ABC7 New York in late February, “The Oyster Bay Branch and folks know this, have got some constraints on it physically. It’s got onetrack territory, some other constraints,” Leiber said. “So again, the goal is for everybody to get a little bit more. And I hope that over time, people will start to realize that those Mineola connections, one after another, are going to be a plus.”

In our part of Nassau, residents commuting to and from Brooklyn and Queens may also find more flexibility going forward.

“The bottom line is Atlantic Terminal is going from 116 trains a day to 155 trains a day, it’s going to have more frequent service in the peak, instead of having a train every 15 to 18 minutes, it’s going to have a train every 12 minutes. And we are excited about how we think the Atlantic Terminal piece of our network is going to benefit from the way we are structuring things now.”

Check out the adjacent chart to see how service on your usual branch(es) has changed, in overall numbers.