For the miserable commuter, one more day
Commuters line up and board buses for the morning commute at the LIRR station in Hicksville on Tuesday morning. Credit: Newsday/Howard Schnapp
Resilient Long Islanders who endured three days of the Long Island Rail Road strike of 2026 need to hang in there one more day.
No doubt they will, especially after commuters navigated a weekday without the nation’s’ largest commuter railroad and confronted jam-packed highways that added 60 to 90 minutes for many.
The MTA and the striking unions reached an agreement Monday night, and both sides promised to get the first trains running by noon on the electrified branches: Port Washington, Huntington, Ronkonkoma and Babylon.
The rest of the system is expected to be running by the afternoon rush hour.
There are shuttle buses running again Tuesday morning from six locations.
One more day, and the morning commute, always a challenge, will at least be back to normal.
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