By Alfonso A. Castillo, Newsday; January 22, 2019
The Long Island Rail Road carried 89.8 million riders in 2018, the most in nearly seven decades, the LIRR said Tuesday.
That number of customers was roughly 0.7 percent more than in 2017 — 89,158,840 — but didn’t top 1949 when the railroad carried a record 91.8 million riders.