LIRR

River Road in Calverton will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday until noon on Sunday for grade crossing replacement work by the Long Island Railroad at the River Road crossing.

River Road in Calverton will be closed from 11 p.m. tonight, until 11 a.m. tomorrow due to the LIRR replacing the grade crossing at the River Road crossing to the west of the LIE, Riverhead Town Police announced this evening.

A man was struck by a passenger train west of the Riverhead train station Sunday night. His leg was severed in the accident, according to radio reports. He was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment.

Supervisor Laura Jens-Smith is inviting residents to help with the spring train station cleanup tomorrow morning. The cleanup...

With people waiting for buses outside the building and buses blocking the roadway, the location is less desirable for a potential tenant.

Home Depot has donated plants for a landscape plan developed by Cornell Cooperative Extension to beautify the area around the Riverhead train station. The town is seeking volunteers to help with the planting Saturday morning.

New Long Island Railroad timetables that go into effect Monday, Nov. 13 will include a new westbound train departing Greenport at 9:43 a.m. and arriving in New York City at 12:33 p.m.

Local elected officials and festival organizers say they can't understand the LIRR's decision, made without consulting them, which they say will worsen traffic on local roads this weekend.

Moving the bus stop on Railroad Street comes with a operating cost increase of between $20,000 and $30,000 per year, according to County Legislator Al Krupski, who says the county can fund by finding efficiencies — not a reduction in service.

Vince Taldone, a public transit advocate and board member of the Five Towns Rural Transit advocacy group, called plans to move the Railroad Avenue bus stop to Cedar Street “a poor transit planning decision” that is “nonsensical and ultimately cruel.”