Jamaica, NY (October 25, 2010) – MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) President Helena Williams conducted the press conference to announce the railroad's new rail command center in Jamaica as culmination of the ‘Jamaica Cutover’ project. The new center, the Jamaica Central Control (JCC), replaces three manually-operated towers on the main line (Jay, Dunton and Hall) which surround Jamaica Station. The overall $56 million cost was funded by the MTA LIRR Capital Improvement Program and impacted ten of the LIRR’s eleven branches. She said that, “…this work was needed to help meet a $400 million 2015 unfunded mandate to implement positive train control. The project will help us get ready for the future and continue our ongoing effort to modernize."
The ‘Jamaica Signal and Switching Control System Cutover’ was completed using a pair of 48-hour weekend service disruptions within a 4-weekend window. Three trains made round trips out of New York Penn Station instead of customary nine on a normal weekend schedule with no LIRR train service between Jamaica and Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. When responding to a media inquiry on why this work couldn’t be done at night, Ms. Williams replied, “Testing must be done on weekends because a [contiguous] 48-hour window is necessary.”
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