MTA: LIRR Fares to Increase Starting on Sunday

The MTA announced that the new increased LIRR fares to go into New York City will take effect this Sunday, March 22.

The increase will affect:

• Monthly tickets for April 2015, available for purchase starting March 20.
• Weekly tickets for March 28 - April 3, available for purchase starting March 25
• CityTicket fare for One-Way weekend travel within NYC increases to $4.25 starting March 22.
• Ten-Trip tickets purchased before March 22, 2015 will remain valid for 6 months from date of purchase.
• One-Way and Round-Trip tickets purchased before March 22, 2015 will remain valid for 60 days from date of purchase.

In addition, the increase will affect Stop-Overs, which allows customers who purchased One-Way or Round-Trip tickets to exit the train at an interim stop, and re-board later in the day using a single ticket.

While the LIRR initially planned to no longer permit stop-overs with the implementation of the March 22 fare changes, the LIRR has decided to further review the elimination of stop-over, but may make a change to this practice in the future, according to a press release from the MTA.

For North Fork residents, one-way peak fares between Penn Station and the four local stations, Mattituck, Southold, Greenport and Riverhead, will increase from $27 to $28.25 and one-way off-peak fares will rise from $19.75 to $20.50.

Fares for seniors, and disabled riders will increase to $13.50 to $14 and Ten-trip fares will also rise, but weekly and monthly ticket prices will not increase.

One-way fares between Ronkonkoma and Penn Station will increase from $17.50 to $18.25 during peak hours and from $12.75 to $13.25 for off-peak.

One-way tickets for senior and disabled riders will increase from $8.75 to $9.

Fares for NYC subways and buses will rise to $2.75.

The increase is part of the overall 4% increase which will take place over the next two years announced back in January.

The MTA Board approved the change at their January board meeting, fulfilling a promise to keep the increases as low as possible.

“The MTA has been able to limit these fare and toll increases to the equivalent of 2% a year thanks to our continued aggressive cost-cutting, while still adding service and improving service quality for our growing number of customers,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast. “Our Financial Plan assumes modest biennial fare and toll increases, and the Board has chosen options with lower increases for our most frequent customers.”

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