{"id":229521,"date":"2026-05-13T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229521\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:18:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-commuters-brace-for-possible-lirr-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229521\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Commuters Brace For Possible Lirr Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Long Island Railroad commuters may have to soon search for alternative routes. The MTA says a possible strike could shut down service starting May 16.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Some people who take the LIRR every day say their travel times could double if they&#8217;re forced to drive instead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Limited shuttle services will be offered if a shutdown does happen, but some commuters say that&#8217;s simply not an option.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;The locations where they&#8217;re offering shuttles, they&#8217;re nowhere near where I live,&#8221; said one passenger. &#8220;To drive over there and then deal with the traffic getting there, plus the crowd, it&#8217;s going to still be a nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The MTA says negotiations with the unions are in progress in hopes that a strike doesn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Island Railroad commuters may have to soon search for alternative routes. The MTA says a possible strike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-229521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}