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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – The MTA board unanimously approved a $51.5 billion capital spending plan that would cover a variety of projects aimed towards upgrading the transit system Wednesday. The plan spans the next five years and addresses the subway, buses, Metro-North and Long Island Railroad. Over...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The MTA released the 2020-2024 Capital Plan on Monday that proposes investing $51.5 billion into the region’s subways, buses and railroads over the next five years in order to fix and create a faster, more accessible, and more reliable public transportation system. The...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The Long Island Rail Road rolled out their first new train cars in nearly two decades during Wednesday's morning rush hour. The eight-car M9 train debuted at 6:50 a.m., going from Huntington to Hunterspoint Avenue with additional runs throughout the day on the Hempstead and...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police released a video on Tuesday of a man they say dragged and raped a 22-year-old woman in Jamaica, Queens. Officials say that on Sunday, August 18, at 2:40 a.m., the suspect dragged victim under the Long Island Railroad train trestle near Tuskegee Airmen Way and 157...

Well over a dozen Long Island Rail Road trains were either cancelled, delayed or held early Friday evening because of someone on the tracks at Penn Station.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A LIRR worker who made $280,000 last year has reportedly been discovered staying home when he was supposed to be working. The New York Post reports foreman Raymond Murphy was snagged at home 10 times over three months last year. He was allowed to retire before he could be...

After another MTA time clock was found destroyed in an “apparent act of vandalism” on Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted the agency this weekend, saying he wants to overhaul the MTA board.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)-- Authorities discovered that one of their time clocks at Jamaica terminal was vandalized and a communication chord was cut. The MTA attempted to crack down on overtime fraud by installing biometric time clocks that reads the fingerprints of LIRR workers as they clock in and...

The LIRR says train service to the Hamptons has resumed after a derailment halted service for two days.

Train service to the east end of Long Island is suspended for the first day of Memorial Day weekend after an early morning derailment on the Long Island Rail Road.