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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.
This is a route-map template for a Long Island Rail Road (Montauk Branch) line segment.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Lines are shown as indicated and named on the official LIRR map; in actual service trains often switch paths through Jamaica. The Lower Montauk Line, owned by the LIRR but now a New York and Atlantic Railway secondary, is shown with a thin dashed line. Date: Accurate to 27 February 2023: Source: Own work: Author
[25]: 17.3 On the southeast corner, two escalators (one up, one down) and a staircase lead to street level, just outside the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s Jamaica station. Additional staircases lead from street level to each of the LIRR platform. Three elevators provide access to the street level and the LIRR station's main mezzanine areas.
The former 160th Street Jamaica Elevated station on Jamaica Avenue that it replaced was also a major hub for trolley service when it was originally built. [47] [48] Several of the trolley lines were the predecessors to current bus service. [47] [48] Jamaica Center is also a hub for dollar vans in the New York metropolitan area.
The Lower Manhattan–Jamaica/JFK Transportation Project was a proposed public works project in New York City, New York, that would use the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch and a new tunnel under the East River to connect a new train station near or at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub site with John F. Kennedy International Airport and Jamaica station on the LIRR.
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]
English: The center platform at Rockville Centre (LIRR station) in Rockville Centre, New York, looking west toward Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Jamaica, Brooklyn, Long Island City, and Manhattan. Date Taken on 24 September 2012, 10:55:52