Helena Williams

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• Automated system eases LIRR ticket buys

  definitely see a difference in waiting time, as do our ticket clerks, and both have welcomed the innovation," LIRR president Helena Williams said in a prepared statement.A clerk sets off a signal that simultaneously lights up the window number, sounds a bell   Read more »

• Long Island Rail Road, postal service calling on Long Islanders to feed the hungry

  morning train Thursday, commuters at three Long Island Rail Road stations can also stomp out hunger.LIRR President Helena Williams announced Wednesday morning that through a partnership with Island Harvest, the LIRR will be holding a food drive Thursday at   Read more »

• Amtrak tunnel project to uproot LIRR facility

  train breakdown in or near Penn Station for 26 months."If we had our druthers, would we be doing this? No," LIRR president Helena Williams said. "But we recognize that we're in a region where . . . intercity rail's future is extremely important, and we're   Read more »

• Port Jefferson line was LIRR's busiest

  route, with 17.8 million riders last year, up 1.3 percent over 2011.The Babylon line, which railroad president Helena Williams Monday called the agency's "bread and butter," was a close second, carrying 17.4 million riders -- a 1.4-percent jump over last year.The   Read more »

• LIRR completes escalator upgrade program

  a year after a woman's death at Lindenhurst Station led the agency to shut them down for several months.Rail Road president Helena Williams said at a meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 's LIRR Committee that, as of March 1, all of the escalators   Read more »

Around the web

• SENATOR FUSCHILLO AND LIRR ANNOUNCE $40 MILLION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AT MASSAPEQUA TRAIN STATION

  Assemblyman Tom McKevitt. Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (R-Merrick) today joined with Long Island Rail Road President Helena Williams in announcing a $40 million improvement project at the Massapequa Train Station. Senator Kemp Hannon (R-Garden City),   from New York Senate Read more »

• Helena Williams: In Iraq, intimidation threatens media work

  When Omar was 21 he was sent an envelope with a line from the Holy Quran and a bullet inside. It was a clear message: leave now, or face the consequences. He knew then that he had to quit his native country, Iraq. Seven years later, he remains in exile and   from GulfToday.ae Read more »