Old LIRR Fare Zones

The LIRR currently has 8 fare zones, but their peculiar numbering (1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14) has often drawn questions over their inconsistency.  The LIRR used to have 16 fare zones, but many of them were combined and consolidated over the years to give rise to today's fare zones.  When LIRR merged zones, they used one of the numbers for the consolidated zones, but unlike Metro-North, they didn't renumber the rest of the zones, which results in the gaps we see today.

Most of these zone combinations took place in the early 1980's, except for the merge of zone 11 stations into zone 10, which didn't happen until May 2003.  Only zones 4 and 12 remain as they were today, the rest have seen consolidation over time.

Old Zone	Today's Zone	Stations
1A	1	NY-Penn Station, Woodside, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens
1B	1	Brooklyn-Atlantic Terminal, Nostrand Avenue, East New York, Long Island City, Hunterspoint Avenue
2	3	Jamaica, Flushing-Main Street, Flushing-Murray Hill, Flushing-Broadway, Flushing-Auburndale
3	3	Hollis, Queens Village, St. Albans, Locust Manor, Laurelton, Rosedale, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck
4	4	Bellerose, Floral Park, Stewart Manor, GC-Nassau Boulevard, GC-Cathedral Avenue, GC-Country Life Press, Hempstead, New Hyde Park, GC-Merillon Avenue, Mineola, East Wiliston, Valley Stream, Lynbrook, Westwood, Malverne, Lakeview, Hempstead Gardens, West Hempstead, Gibson, Hewlett, Woodmere, Cedarhurst, Lawrence, Inwood, Far Rockaway, Great Neck, Manhasset, Plandome, Port Washington
5	7	Carle Place, Westbury, Albertson, Roslyn, Rockville Centre, Baldwin, Freeport, E Rockaway-Centre Avenue, E Rockaway-Ocean Avenue, Oceanside
6	7	Hicksville, Greenvale, Glen Head, Sea Cliff, Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh, Island Park, Long Beach
7	7	Bethpage, Farmingdale, Syosset, Glen Street, Glen Cove, Locust Valley, Oyster Bay, Seaford, Massapequa, Massapequa Park
8	9	Pinelawn, Wyandanch, Cold Spring Harbor, Huntington, Amityville, Copaigue, Lindenhurst
9	9	Deer Park, Greenlawn, Northport, Babylon
10	10	Brentwood, Central Islip, Ronkonkoma, Kings Park, Smithtown, Bay Shore, Islip, Great River, Oakdale, Sayvile
11	10	Medford, St. James, Stony Brook, Port Jefferson, Patchogue
12	12	Yaphank, Bellport, Mastic-Shirley, Speonk
13	14	Riverhead, Mattituck, Westhampton, Hampton Bays
14	14	Southold, Greenport, Southampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Amagansett
15	14	Montauk

Additionally, today Mets-Willets Point Station is in zone 91, though it has always had the same fares as zone 1A/1, and zone 1 is printed on tickets.  Belmont Park is in zone 94, and I believe it has always had special fares.  The LIRR also sells tickets to the Meadowlands in New Jersey (zone 81) and Yankee Stadium (zone 84).  Both print as zone 1 on paper tickets (and are not available via eTix).