Alfonso Castillo
Transit Reporter at Newsday
Newsday transit reporter, typically found writing on, and riding on, the LIRR, especially those single seats on the old M3's. Email me: [email protected]
Articles
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5 days ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
Driving too fast past a worksite on the Throgs Neck Bridge or Queens Midtown Tunnel could soon result in an automatic fine for drivers, as New York State looks to install automatic speed cameras to issue tickets on city bridges and tunnels, according to MTA officials. The measure, included in a state budget approved Thursday night in Albany, is billed as a public safety program.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
It took me three tries to pass my driving test. The first time, when I was 17, I froze making a left at a busy intersection in Freeport. Fail. The second time, I nailed the turn, and even parallel parked to perfection, but blew a stop sign on my way back to the starting point. Fail. At the age of 21, at a different test course in Laurelton, Queens, I finally passed — and not a moment too soon, as I was starting my summer internship at Newsday weeks later.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
Amtrak is fighting back against criticism over its plan to keep one of the four East River Tunnels linking to Penn Station out of service for three years, saying lawmakers and MTA officials have been spreading “misinformation and misleading facts” about the forthcoming project. In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul Friday, Amtrak President Roger Harris defended the agency’s $1.6 billion effort to repair Superstorm Sandy damage in two of the four East River Tunnels.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
Tube closures overnight this month of the Hugh L. Carey and Midtown tunnels will throttle traffic during preparations for potential weather catastrophes such as tropical storms or hurricanes with storm-door tests, the MTA Bridges and Tunnels agency announced Thursday. Each of the doors weighs more than 20 tons and is 29 feet wide and 14 feet high and almost 2 feet thick.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
The MTA is formally calling on Amtrak to reconsider its plan to keep one of the four East River Tunnels linking to Penn Station out of service for three years while it carries out Superstorm Sandy repairs — an "extremely risky" strategy that could result in rush hour shutdowns of Long Island Rail Road service, according to the LIRR’s president.
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