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Overcast Discount Long Island Rail Road ticket from Far Rockaway
The Long Island Rail Road’s discounted ticket for travel will be available for Far Rockaway tickets, similar to the existing CityTicket, and will be available for purchase at the Far Rockaway station.
Set to expand during the week of Aug. 20, the ticket discount was created specifically for Far Rockaway riders to mirror the pricing of the railroad’s discounted CityTicket available for travel only within Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
“We are thrilled that our Far Rockaway customers will now be able to travel on LIRR for only $7during peak hours,” Metro-North Railroad President and LIRR Interim President Catherine Rinaldi said in a news release.
This is the first ticket ever created for users of a specific station; customers can buy them on the TrainTime app as well as through the station’s vending machines.
Tickets are only valid on the day of purchase, but riders can take advantage of the discount on a same-day return trip by buying a round-trip ticket before leaving Far Rockaway. The branch includes Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Gibson stations.
“The new ticket will make transportation more affordable for everyone at a time when many are trying to make ends meet,” State Sen. James Sanders Jr. said in the same release. “After fighting for equity for CityTicket for a long time, I am very glad we have finally achieved our goal.”
The Far Rockaway Ticket debuts simultaneously with the expanding CityTicket to peak trains. Now, customers at any LIRR or Metro-North Railroad station within New York City can use CityTicket at any time and any day of the week.
“For far too long, Rockaway residents were deprived equitable access to the discounted LIRR ticket available to all other New Yorkers for trips within the city,” New York City Council Majority Whip Selvena N. Brooks-Powers said in the release. “I thank the MTA for their work to extend CityTicket access to Far Rockaway, and I look forward to working with both the MTA and the community to build upon and improve this program.”
