{"id":544516,"date":"2026-03-25T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544516\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:44:14","slug":"lirr-on-or-close-to-schedule-after-major-rush-hour-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544516\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRR on or close to schedule after major rush hour disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Long Island Rail Road was operating on or close to schedule after experiencing severe disruptions\u00a0Wednesday morning due to a person\u00a0struck by a train in Westbury, the railroad announced.<\/p>\n

The condition of the victim was not immediately available. The MTA police reported they were at the scene and investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0latest cancellation was the 8:14 a.m. from Hicksville to Penn Station. Passengers were directed to take the\u00a07:45 a.m. train from Ronkonkoma to Penn Station.<\/p>\n

Due to one westbound cancellation, passengers on the Port Jefferson line were experiencing delays averaging 30 to 35 minutes.<\/p>\n

Westbound trains were bypassing Westbury and Carle Place.<\/p>\n

Commuters were urged to check the LIRR website<\/a> for alternative trains and notifications on the updated schedule.<\/p>\n

Maureen Mullarkey is a breaking news reporter at Newsday. She previously worked as a reporter for Patch, where she covered a range of Long Island stories on topics such as the Diocese of Rockville Centre bankruptcy and the Babylon School District abuse scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Island Rail Road was operating on or close to schedule after experiencing severe disruptions\u00a0Wednesday morning due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453,6145],"class_list":["post-544516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}