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Evening Train Restored to Port Jefferson Line

After being cut in 2010, a weekday train arriving in Port Jefferson at 7 p.m. will be restored, according to the MTA.

After a fare hike recently went into effect on the Port Jefferson branch of the Long Island Rail Road – as well as many others – the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced recently that an evening eastbound line would be restored.

The 5:12 p.m. weekday train from Hunterspoint Avenue to Port Jefferson will be back on the schedule, according to the MTA, after it was cut in 2010 among a slate of other cuts systemwide.

The train will arrive in Port Jefferson at 7 p.m.

Added lines heading out to Montauk, Huntington and Long Beach were restored as well. All restorations take affect Monday.

New fares went into affect on Friday, with average tickets increasing between 8.2 and 9.3 percent, depending on the distance traveled.

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Janet May 22, 2013 at 04:52 pm
Bravo MP Majority, very well said.Teachers are the most protected job on the planet. Now if theyRead More could only earn that money by producing results in the classrooms like they used to. But I also blame the absent NO vote. They need to be sent a message-we need a majority no vote but that will never happen. Glad I am out of here in 2 years. Can't imagine trying to live here and pay these taxes on social security and my 401K that tanked in 2008 while I was making up the teachers loss on their pension and paying my health insurance & theirs at the same time. So boo hoo teachers you have to spend money on the kids while I spend money on you.
MP Majority May 17, 2013 at 01:41 pm
Spoken like a true teacher. Did you know that the average school teacher is only paying 15% of theRead More actual cost of health care premiums for themselves and their families, when Medical healthcare insurance premiums are rising at an alarming 17% per annum? Do you realize that teachers are paid an additional stipend if they work more than 3 consecutive periods in a day? Are you aware that teacher pensions were protected during the stock market crash of 2008, when the average person's 401K was totally at risk? Perhaps if teachers realized how good they have it - look at the BIG picture and outside of their bubble - then they would complain less. Oh and yes, we need our loftily-paid Administrators to kick in some of the salaries, to help pay for stuff. Hard to believe the school districts' mantras that "it's all for the kids".