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Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:52 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

How could anyone envision Covid in the 1950's -- When the East Side Access project was first proposed The current schedule is a disaster, with old assumptions on the use of Penn vs GCM Additionally, reducing the round-trip travel time by 40 minutes compared to using Penn Station is 100% fiction Here...

Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:40 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

You are being too PC when you refer to it as "The Problem" We all know where it came from and what caused it Outside of "The Ministry of Truth", using outdated, three-year old statistics for a project that by most accounts has not gone well, would get you a "RGE" at you...

Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:24 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

Only the MTA would use a study that uses statistics from at least three years ago that is no longer relevant

Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:49 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

I think I finally understand what is happening The opening of GCM forced the LIRR to run more trains with fewer cars Some trains which had 12 cars, now have 10, or sometimes 8 cars This causes overcrowding and makes ticket collection on these trains impossible Due to this shortfall in revenue (which...

Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Sat May 06, 2023 8:55 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

Add congestion pricing into the mix,and Gov Hochul will make a bad situation intolerable

Delays Yesterday Morning (4/4)

 by Commuter X ¦  Wed Apr 05, 2023 6:43 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Delays Yesterday Morning (4/4) ¦  Replies: 10 ¦  Views: 1168

This is a new one for me

https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/commuter- ... hits-wall/

Train and/or rails need service
I will say that there is no longer a smooth ride as you approach the tunnels

Re: Grand Central Madison TERMINAL DISCUSSION THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:47 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

Yesterday, the Alchemist and Mrs. A. took our first trip into Manhattan since GCM opened. Probably someday we'll want to go to the east side and we'll be glad for GCM, but for now it's basically cut our service to Penn in half. To make matters worse, the waiting room (sucky as it used to be!) is no...

Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:41 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

The only positive I see is that the proposed fare increase, which is probably necessary, is now on hold until the MTA fixes this debacle. What should happen is that Catherine Rinaldi should admit failure and starting April 1, re-instate the schedules that were in effect prior to February 27th. Then ...

Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Mon Feb 27, 2023 9:06 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

If there are a fixed number of M7 and M9 cars, how do you create more trains? Have trains run with fewer cars. My understanding is the M9 cars are on back-order, but that is another story for another day. The only seats I saw empty was mostly middle seats in the row of three in all 8 cars. Post covi...

Re: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES THREAD

 by Commuter X ¦  Mon Feb 27, 2023 8:21 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grand Central Madison TIMETABLES AND RIDERSHIP THREAD ¦  Replies: 123 ¦  Views: 18035

I should have figured this out earlier. The LIRR has a fixed number of cars. Most can go to Grand Central, some can't. In order to run more trains, they need to shorten the number of cars per train. So, two 12 car trains now become three 8 car trains. Now my 12 car train, where it was possible to ge...

Re: The East Side Access Project Discussion (ESA)

 by Commuter X ¦  Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:42 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: The East Side Access Project Discussion (ESA) ¦  Replies: 1157 ¦  Views: 376350

As I predicted, service begins tomorrow, December 56th, 2022
The goal has been met

Re: The East Side Access Project Discussion (ESA)

 by Commuter X ¦  Sat Dec 17, 2022 3:32 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: The East Side Access Project Discussion (ESA) ¦  Replies: 1157 ¦  Views: 376350

Breaking News -- LIRR declares that December will have 62 days so they can meet their year-end deadline

Re: East Side Access NOT LIRR

 by Commuter X ¦  Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:57 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: East Side Access NOT LIRR ¦  Replies: 78 ¦  Views: 10795

I read somewhere that a trip from Jamaica -> NYC Penn takes 20 mins A scheduled trip from Jamaica -> NYC GCT is supposed to take 28 mins A trip on the 1/2/3 and the S may be able to get you from NYC Penn -> NYC GCT in fewer than 8 mins With remote work, now the norm, time will tell if --- Trains wil...

Re: Removing The Secret Minute at the Terminal Station

 by Commuter X ¦  Mon Sep 27, 2021 3:42 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Removing The Secret Minute at the Terminal Station ¦  Replies: 67 ¦  Views: 9485

Let me chime in here, if I may I am back to taking the LIRR a few days a week and take the train r/t Penn to one of the eastern terminal stations. In other words, the last stop I have noticed that when the east-bound train is one or two minutes from arriving (the train is in motion and the doors are...

Re: LIRR Corona Virus COVID19 Service Disruptions

 by Commuter X ¦  Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:43 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: LIRR Corona Virus COVID19 Service Disruptions ¦  Replies: 37 ¦  Views: 9844

Ready --- Fire --- Aim !!!

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