New LIRR Smoking Ban Now in Effect

MTA LIRR riders are now prohibited from smoking on outdoor platform, ticketing and boarding areas of terminals and stations – including the Babylon line  – as New York State’s new smoking ban took effect Monday.

The current rules prohibit smoking on any train and in any indoor area within a terminal or station, according to the LIRR statement. The new state law extends the ban on smoking to outdoors areas, thereby providing the MTA Police with the authority to enforce the new law, the LIRR further noted.

MTA Police will be issuing warnings to violators rather than summonses during a grace period while an education campaign gets underway, and both railroads amend their rules of conduct, and those rules are approved by the MTA Board.

Also in effect are new Long Island Rail Road timetables, and will continue to be through December 11, according to a a statement on its website.

For detailed information on all of the schedule and service changes, customers are advised to pick up a copy of the new November 7 to December 11 timetables for their station or branch at LIRR stations and terminals.

Customers could also contact the LIRR's Travel Information Center at 718-217-5477 (LIRR). Hearing-impaired customers could use their preferred relay service provider or the free 711 relay to reach LIRR at 718-217-5477.