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LIRR Service Suspended

Train travel east of Jamaica station shut down.

Long Island Rail Road service is temporarily suspended west of Jamaica due to inclement weather. This affects service on all LIRR branches. No trains are traveling between Penn Station and Jamaica and Jamaica and Brooklyn.

A spokesperson for the LIRR said that service should be restored as soon as the storm passes, but did not specify an exact time.  The most recent update from the LIRR website states that "there is extremely limited service eastbound from Jamaica at this time." The MTA is estimating it may take 90 minutes or more to  restore service as a result of multiple trees down.

"There are trees down on the tracks at Forest Hills and other places so we simply cannot run trains," MTA Chairman/CEO Jay Walder told Patch in Garden City Thursday night. "We also do not have service right now on the J, M, L, or 7 lines in all of part of what appears to have been a tornado that went through the New York area, and we're grappling with that."

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The LIRR recently experienced trouble after a fire at a switching station near Jamaica shut down a large percentage of service in late-August.


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