"The Long Island Rail Road is the only mass transit option for the hundreds of thousands of Long Island commuters who travel to and from the city each day, and they deserve better than the maddening delays and cancellations that continue to occur nearly every week," Schumer and Gillibrand said. "For too long, the feds have under-invested in rail and transit systems, including the LIRR-connected Amtrak Northeast Corridor, and left us where we are today."