{"id":235123,"date":"2026-05-18T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235123\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:09:51","slug":"new-yorkers-brace-for-travel-chaos-as-strikes-disrupt-americas-busiest-commuter-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235123\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers brace for travel chaos as strikes disrupt America\u2019s busiest commuter railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

London\/New York\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

\n New Yorkers should prepare for travel disruption Monday, the city\u2019s officials have warned, as service on the vital Long Island Rail Road remains suspended because of a historic strike<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe City is preparing for travel disruptions going into the workweek and New Yorkers should too,\u201d New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted to X <\/a>late Sunday, providing an update of the latest developments and advice on how to navigate the service interruption. \u201cNew Yorkers should plan for heavier-than-usual traffic and additional travel time,\u201d he added.\n <\/p>\n

\n Marathon talks between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the railway, and unions representing railroad workers ended early Monday without an agreement to end the strike, which has shut down North America\u2019s busiest commuter rail network since Saturday.\n <\/p>\n

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America\u2019s largest commuter railroad is on strike\n <\/p>\n

Long Island Rail Road\u2014the largest commuter railroad in the US\u2014is on strike after talks broke down between its unions and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. CNN’s Gloria Pazmino reports.<\/p>\n

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America\u2019s largest commuter railroad is on strike<\/p>\n

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\n The MTA\u2019s latest service alert<\/a> shows that all branches of the Long Island Rail Road, which carries around 250,000 customers each weekday across 947 trains, remain suspended. It advised commuters to work from home if possible.\n <\/p>\n

\n The MTA will provide shuttle busses from Long Island into the city starting at 4.30 a.m. ET Monday, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul<\/a>. \u201cWe have a plan in place to help essential workers get to the city and minimize disruptions as much as possible,\u201d she said on X.\n <\/p>\n

\n But the MTA has warned that the buses will have a capacity of 13,000 riders for the morning commute and another 13,000 riders in the afternoon, meaning they will have a small fraction of the capacity that normally rides the trains on weekdays.\n <\/p>\n

\n The strike by five unions representing 3,500 workers is the first at the railroad since 1994. It comes after the unions failed Friday to reach a deal with management on wages and working conditions. Workers are seeking their first raise since 2022, in the region of 4-5%.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The National Mediation Board, the federal labor agency governing labor relations for railroads and airlines, summoned representatives for both sides to a Sunday afternoon meeting that continued until nearly 1:30 a.m. Monday, the Associated Press<\/a> reported.\n <\/p>\n

\n Though a deal could not be reached, the two sides agreed to restart negotiations Monday morning.\n <\/p>\n

\n Unions on strike represent engineers, signalmen and machinists. The conductors are not on strike but they are union members and honoring the picket lines.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe LIRR is the lifeblood of Long Island. Hundreds of thousands of riders depend on it every day. This strike hurts both the riders who rely on the LIRR and the workers who operate it,\u201d said Hochul, who has condemned the strike as \u201creckless.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Commuters now face the prospect of having to drive to work at a time when gas prices have surged and new tolls are in place on all cars entering Manhattan\u2019s business district.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London\/New York\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 New Yorkers should prepare for travel disruption Monday, the city\u2019s officials have warned, as service on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10098,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-235123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-hnk","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235123","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=235123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}