It was business as usual at Penn Station this evening....Inacurate, incomplete information with complete kaos inside and outside
Someone needs to take a course in crisis management
I guess the LIRR will have to settle for a 97% on-time rate this month
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Re: Suspended PM service 9/16
by Commuter X ¦ Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:27 pm ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: Suspended PM service 9/16 ¦ Replies: 42 ¦ Views: 4957Re: Here It comes - Timetable changes
by Commuter X ¦ Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:47 am ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: Here It comes - Timetable changes ¦ Replies: 20 ¦ Views: 3258matt91 wrote:I wonder how everyone made it thru the first day of the new cuts... thoughts?Other than not having a conductor check for tickets, on my Monday and Tuesday morning commute, no problems here
If this continues, I may opt to purchase a 10-trip ticket instead of a monthly
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Re: The End of an Era, The Harold Protects
by Commuter X ¦ Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:03 pm ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: The End of an Era, The Harold Protects ¦ Replies: 163 ¦ Views: 24985Just let Newsday know
After all, they were all over the Gap Issue
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Re: Any word on future layoff?
by Commuter X ¦ Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:10 pm ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: Any word on future layoff? ¦ Replies: 99 ¦ Views: 12269When Conductors and Engineers make over 2.5 times their base pay there is a problem
How does a conductor whose base is 75K, take home a salary of 239K?
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is something fishy going on here.
If you doubt me this is all public information
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Re: Ticket Window closures
by Commuter X ¦ Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:16 am ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: Ticket Window closures ¦ Replies: 14 ¦ Views: 2563Not good anyway you look at it
For a more detailed description, see page 25 of the document below
http://mta.info/news/pdf/july10_presentation.pdf
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Re: Fare Collection Technology
by Commuter X ¦ Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:01 pm ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: Fare Collection Technology ¦ Replies: 61 ¦ Views: 6094Perhaps I am a skeptic, but the same "technology" that was used for the LIRR's first 100 years, will be used for the next 100 as well Better question should be where will they find the money to build such a system? The MTA is broke and the commuters will be taking it on the chin one more t...
Re: Greetings
by Commuter X ¦ Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:14 am ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: Greetings ¦ Replies: 8 ¦ Views: 1247ADL6009... I have no intention about bitching that my train was late 2 days in a row That being said, I look forward to my monthly edition of Train Talk where I can see what numbers the LIRR has conjured up regarding their on-time statistics for the previous month. Everyone knows the numbers are BS ...
Greetings
by Commuter X ¦ Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:13 pm ¦ Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦ Topic: Greetings ¦ Replies: 8 ¦ Views: 1247I am "Commuter X", a daily commuter on the LIRR
If it is OK, I would like to occasionally post some of my experiences as a paying customer on The Long Island Rail Road.