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Jamaica is a major train station of the Long Island Rail Road located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. With weekday ridership exceeding 200,000 passengers, [ 8 ] it is the largest transit hub on Long Island , the fourth-busiest rail station in North America, and the second-busiest station that exclusively serves commuter traffic.
New York City Subway, Long Island Rail Road: 4: Jamaica Station: 59.803 [9] New York City United States: Long Island Rail Road: 6 (10 tracks) AirTrain JFK, New York City Subway: 5: Chicago Union Station: 43.948 [10] Chicago United States: Amtrak, Metra: 30 (24 tracks) Chicago "L" 6: Ogilvie Transportation Center: 31.905 [11] Chicago United ...
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches". [1] [4] (Not included in this count are two additional stations that serve employees of the LIRR: Hillside Facility and Boland's Landing).
Zone 1, the City Terminal Zone, includes Penn Station, Grand Central, all stations in Brooklyn, all stations in Queens west of Jamaica on the Main Line, and Mets–Willets Point. [ 83 ] Zone 3 includes Jamaica as well as all other stations in eastern Queens except Far Rockaway. [ 84 ]
Subway entrance next to the Jamaica station. Stairs go up to all four corners of Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue. [32] [25]: 17.3, 17.4 The two northern staircases go down to an unstaffed fare control area, which as of 2007 consists of four High Entry-Exit Turnstiles. The full-time fare control area is at the southern end and includes seven ...
A map from 2005 included in Metropolitan Transportation Authority planning documents that shows the proposed location for a commuter railroad station in Sunnyside, Queens.
The MTA planned a new station in Sunnyside, Queens, once East Side Access was completed. [6] [7] The MTA later proposed in their 20-year needs assessment for 2025 to 2044 that Sunnyside station serve both the LIRR and the Metro-North Railroad, with the latter providing service to Penn Station after Penn Station Access is completed. [8]
These interlockings allowed any line to reach any other line, allowing easy transfer between lines at Jamaica station, which is the hallmark of current day LIRR service. When the new Jamaica station opened, residents of Jamaica were dissatisfied with its location; downtown Jamaica was centered around Union Hall Street, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) east ...