MTA Long Island Rail Road today announced that buses will substitute for two midday trains at Mattituck, Southold and Greenport on Wednesday, March 22, and Wednesday, March 29, as LIRR maintenance crews replace switches in Mattituck and Southold.  Service details are below.

 

The 10:44 a.m. departure from Ronkonkoma will terminate at Riverhead, where customers can board buses for Mattituck, Southold and Greenport. Customers should add up to an additional 10 minutes of travel time.

 

Customers who normally board the train at Greenport at 12:42 p.m., Southold at 12:52 p.m. or Mattituck at 1:05 p.m. will instead find a bus in the station parking lot. To allow buses enough travel time to connect with the train at Riverhead at it usual schedule, buses are scheduled to depart up to 12 minutes earlier than the train’s scheduled departure time.

 

The substitute bus is scheduled to depart at these times:

 

Greenport: 12:30 p.m.

Southold: 12:41 p.m.

Mattituck: 12:55 p.m.

 

The bus is scheduled to arrive at Riverhead at 1:12 p.m., allowing customers to connect to the regularly scheduled train departing at 1:21 p.m.

 

 

Information about planned service changes like this one is made available via many methods. 

The above communications channels can be accessed while at home or on the go. For customers who are located at stations, the LIRR will post the latest service updates on digital signs at station platforms and will make audio announcements over public address systems, and on-board announcements made by train crews.