{"id":291500,"date":"2026-04-29T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:42:10","slug":"lirr-and-nj-transit-delays-see-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291500\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRR and NJ Transit delays: See latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LIRRfile_1533145624067_5875561_ver1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; Commuters are facing major delays Wednesday after a train struck debris in an East River tunnel.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to officials, a Long Island Rail Road train struck debris triggering widespread service disruptions on the Long Beach Branch.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Some passengers were being evacuated from affected trains as frustration mounted, with riders taking to social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">One wrote, &#8220;Another dreamy morning on the #LIRR \u2026 it is like they are on strike already,&#8221; while others complained about being stuck in tunnels and waiting to be rerouted.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">SkyFOX flew over the scene, where a disabled train could be seen in the tunnel area as emergency crews responded.<\/p>\n<p>  What happened? <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to the MTA, a Long Island Rail Road train traveling from Jamaica to Penn Station became stuck in an East River tunnel around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday after the engineer reported striking debris.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The incident followed an earlier issue in the same Amtrak-operated tunnel involving a disabled NJ Transit train that was later removed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">All passengers aboard the LIRR train were safely evacuated, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The disruption prompted cancellations, delays and reroutes on the Long Beach Branch during the morning commute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Riders were advised to check the TrainTime app and the MTA website for real-time service updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from the MTA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/lirr\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island Railroad<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/mta\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MTA<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; Commuters are facing major delays Wednesday after a train struck debris in an East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[124343,131,133,132,124344,100,1768],"class_list":["post-291500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-lirr","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mta","tag-news","tag-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}