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Tomorrow at 10 a.m., officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will reopen Urban Avenue in New Cassel, L.I., to vehicular traffic. The street had been closed in March to allow it to be rebuilt as an underpass beneath the LIRR’s busy Main Line. As part of the LIRR Expansion Project (also known as the Third Track project), it is the first of five at-grade railroad crossings along the Main Line to be transformed into underpasses, improving safety, train reliability and traffic, and reducing local sound nuisances.

 

WHO:        • Phil Eng, President of the Long Island Rail Road
                 • Janno Lieber, MTA Chief Development Officer
                 • Senator Anna Kaplan
                 • Assembly Member Michael Montesano
                 • Anthony Simon, General Chairman, SMART Union
                 • Ricardo Sanchez, General Chairman, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
                 • Anthony Lavoratore, Chairman, SMART Local 29 – Track & B&B

 

WHAT:      Officials will cut the ribbon on the roadway underpass, then police and fire vehicles will be first to use the new roadway before general traffic begins.

 

WHEN:      Tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 5 – 10 a.m.

 

WHERE:     Corner of Urban Avenue and Broadway,
                  New Cassel, L.I.