LIRR mulls reopening Republic station

The Long Island Rail Road will study the prospect of reopening the Republic train station in East Farmingdale, which could lead to a 1.2-million-square-foot development in the area, officials said yesterday.

[Ron Zoni]

Just what's needed, another Airport Plaza.

[Pay More Get Less]

What line is it on? The central line that connects the ronkonkoma line to the babylon line? There are only a couple of trains a day on that line anyway.

[tmptjohn88]

Pay More Get Less wrote:

What line is it on? The central line that connects the ronkonkoma line to the babylon line? There are only a couple of trains a day on that line anyway.

Study done, you should charge the LIRR 3.5 million for that

[Barry_LIRR_Boy]

Need to focus on improving the lots at overcrowded Syosset Station where dangerous conditions exist all around, including proper traffic lights at entrances/ exits on north side of the station.

[Joe]

"Retail, entertainment and hotels"....but no businesses with jobs that provide LIVING WAGES.

[For what it is worth___]

Would the new development be on the north side of Conklin between the tracks and Airport Plaza (the falling down buildings) or on the north side of the tracks where the shed dealer and sand and gravel place is ? Either way, who owns the property and who benefits? As always on LI, follow the money. When they come back and try to sell you the idea that there'll be buses running up/down 110 from the station servicing commuters......ask why they can't do that from Farmingdale, which is on the same LIRR branch (Ronkonkoma)??

[Romando]

If they are going to add this as a stop then they should close the Pinelawn stop. Too many stops on the Ronkonkoma line just slows things down.

[For what it is worth___]

Romando wrote:

If they are going to add this as a stop then they should close the Pinelawn stop. Too many stops on the Ronkonkoma line just slows things down.

It's hard to identify exactly what slows that line down, every day is something else but NO ONE is going to raise his hand to cut off LIRR access for the families of fallen vets in that cemetery. Not that many people ever use it, it just sounds terrible.

[LIRRrider]

Another waste of money by the LIRR.$3.5 million just to do the study? If they had any brains they'd get off their overpaid asses, ride the trains themselves and talk to the irrate passengers who have been delayed because of the lousy service. The LIRR needs to quit dreaming of projects that will do absolutely nothing for service and implement improvements that will make them run more efficiently. Plain and simple, current LIRR service stinks. Every day there are delays for one reason or another. Make what you already have work first before you expand and have a bigger system that still doesn't work. Pull your head out of your asses already!!

[this is GOOD for LI]

Are you serious...

there are NO negatives to this project!!!

that whole area looks like a ghost town...its about time it gets revitalized

just take a look at it from the air on google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps...

"According to a news release, the plan could add up to 1.2 million square feet of new retail, office, residential, entertainment and hotel space. It also includes converting traditional shopping centers, parking lots and blighted properties into new development."

Does LI need homes...YES
Does LI need jobs...YES
Does LI need more mass transit, less cars and traffic...YES
Want lower taxes...YES

[JayK]

Pay More Get Less wrote:

What line is it on? The central line that connects the ronkonkoma line to the babylon line? There are only a couple of trains a day on that line anyway.

No, the old Republic station was on the Ronkonkoma line, between Hicksville and Pinelawn. It's not on that spur that goes from Hicksville to Babylon.

[ttt]

Isnt there like another station abour 300 -500 feet from there on pinelawn? That would be a waste of money

[this is GOOD for LI]

For what it is worth___ wrote:

ask why they can't do that from Farmingdale, which is on the same LIRR branch (Ronkonkoma)??

If you lived in the Village of Farmingdale would you want dozens of busses speeding down your roads everyday???

The roadways around the Farmingdale LIRR Station are small single-lane roads.

Not to mention that station already has a bus route, the N95, a Shuttle bus, with only 4 stops in Melville and Farmingdale.

Do you think the Village wants to be some large transfer point for hundreds or thousands of commuters, Ha.

[Mike]

Hey, as gas prices go up (and they aren't coming back down folks...) it makes perfect sense to expand the railroad infrastructure. Get used to it LI... the old paradigm of driving everywhere is slowly going to change. It's a great idea.

[this is GOOD for LI]

ttt wrote:

Isnt there like another station abour 300 -500 feet from there on pinelawn? That would be a waste of money

that station is just over a mile east of 110

[Newman]

...just what the 110 corridor needs-more business, retail and hotel space...let's think back a few months ago when everyone was crying about the over development sucking up all the resources- water, sewage disposal, ELECTRICITY- 1.2 million sf? Where will the water come from? How will sewage be disposed of? How will they provide enough ELECTRICITY?...in an area already bursting at the seams? All to generate low paying, transient type service jobs?...BRILLIANT!

[sdhfjk]

this is GOOD for LI wrote:

Does LI need homes...YES
Does LI need jobs...YES
Does LI need more mass transit, less cars and traffic...YES
Want lower taxes...YES

homes= no - no more homes, just affordable ones would be nice
jobs = yes, but not the ones in retail paying $7 /hr
mass transit = would be nice, but not too practical on long island. buses would cause additional traffic anyway, slowing everyone down when it stops in the right lane. we don't have bus lanes on the island.
lower taxes = would be lovely, but not going to happen in our lifetime.

the only way all of this will happen is if there is a total collapse and rebuild of life on the island - new values, new morals, less gov't levels...

[LIRR754]

Anyone know if the LIRR will be adding a stop at the new outlets going up in Deer Park?

[Worth consideration]

this is GOOD for LI wrote:

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that station is just over a mile east of 110

There is a lack of good mass-transit for the 110 corridor - 1000s of employees with no alternative but to drive - definitely worth considering.

[Mike]

Buses don't cause more traffic per capita---especially if you consider all the people on the bus would otherwise be in their own separate cars. What's worse, a bus in the right lane or 100 extra cars?

More buses and more trains means more people getting to work, without having to pave the entire island.