Long Island Rail Road workers are installing fences around the stretch of tracks west of the Copiague station where two teenagers were fatally struck by a train this week.
The 8-foot-tall high-security fencing being installed Friday will stretch 40 feet on the south side of the tracks and 45 feet on the north side, west of the concrete abutment separating the station and the embankment.
“It is the Long Island Rail Road’s practice to fence off any area of right of way where young people may visit to memorialize victims of train accidents,” LIRR spokesman Sam Zambuto told the Press.
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Ariana Napolitano and Katherine Sanchez, both 18 and from Copiague, were struck and killed by an eastbound non-passenger train at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
MTA Police are continuing the investigation but it remains unclear why the victims were on the tracks at the time, Zambuto said.
