By Alfonso A. Castillo, Newsday; June 27, 2019
The state Legislature, responding to a request from the chairman of the MTA, has backed off a plan to force the Long Island Rail Road to lower its threshold for what it considers an “on-time” train.
In March, the Legislature changed the state’s public authorities law to require the LIRR to consider late any train that arrives two minutes or more after its scheduled time — less than half the railroad’s longtime threshold of 5 minutes and 59 seconds. The LIRR had six months to adopt the standard.