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The numbers are in, and boy was 2018 a rough one for the LIRR...
Performance decreased in every major quality of service metric during 2018, including; trains late, trains canceled, average delay, total minutes of delay, and on time performance.
Stay tuned tomorrow for more!
Despite being within line of sight of Jamaica station, nearly 400 passengers sat on a crowded derailed train for over 2 hours before being evacuated. Shame on the MTA, what a disgrace!
We'll delay your commute this morning somewhere between 5 and 60 minutes, depending on what you land on the MTA prize wheel
This isn't the full story. Train left Penn 5 minutes late, no big deal. Then, but then after getting 75% through tunnel comes to a sudden stops and reverses back to Penn - wrong tunnel apparently. Continues forward again, stops once more and reverses - wrong tunnel again...
Raymond Murphy, LIRR's biggest overtime abuser, was caught sitting at home on 10 occasions while on the clock. "In one five-day period in May, he claimed to have worked 114 of a possible 120 hours."
He was allowed to retire before he could be disciplined
nypost.com/2019/07/09/lirr-o…
Conductor: "This train does not stop at Jamaica. No Jamaica. No Jamaica. We do not, do not, do not stop at Jamaica. No Jamaica stop"
[2 minutes later]
Guy next to me: "Does this train stop at Jamaica?"
Hot topic on the train this morning was last night's debate, but nobody seemed to remember that DeBlasio eats his pizza for a fork and knife
youtube.com/watch?v=2QMQqmYD…
Once can only hope it's not the same signal personnel who were working at Westbury minutes ago, seeing that they were utterly incompetent at completing that project in a timely and efficient manner
Signal workers milking some extra overtime from the weekend bridge work, massive delays due to unrelated signal issues at Jamaica, and the guy next to me is eating tuna fish for breakfast... Just another Monday morning on the Long Island Failroad
de Blasio was born as Warren Wilhelm Jr and legally changed his name soley to aid in name recognition for political reasons. He will now be traveling the country campaigning for the election while ignoring the serious work that needs to be done in NYC nytimes.com/2019/05/16/nyreg…
NYC Uber and Lyft drivers are going on strike tomorrow morning in protest of low wages. Ironically, as soon as they do so the lack of drivers available will likely cause all of NYC to go into surge pricing, so any driver greedy enough to ignore the strike will be raking in fares
Riding the LIRR on the weekend sure is... interesting...
Moments ago;
Daytripper A: "Which way is the dining car?"
Conductor: "Yeah, we don't do that"
Daytripper B: "Does this train stop at Mineola?"
Conductor: "No this is the Bablyon branch... Also, you bought peak tickets..."
.@nypost: "While delays on LIRR hit a 19-year high in '18, chief measurement operator Thomas Caputo brought home a $461,646 paycheck. Caputo is “one of only a few people” who can operate an “advanced track-geometry car,” which checks for rail defects"
"Caputo retired this month after 30 years on the job — and his hefty final pay year could give a boost to his pension."
Per @empirecenter Phil Eng, new LIRR President, earned $294,243 in '18. Under his tenure LIRR overtime spending increased 30% (or $50 million) totaling $224 million in '18. There's also been a 45% increase in overall payroll since '08 while number of employees increased just 9.6%
Of the top 100 paid MTA employees, 36 of them work for the LIRR in the role of either track foreman, signal inspector, signal foreman, or third rail maintainer.