LIRR President Orders Individual Branch Performance Goals

puckhead wrote:hey X, what is your ontime performance in your car? you never hit traffic, get stuck behind a broken car, get slowed up by emergency vehicles? between the people fouling the tracks with cars and garbage, people having medical issues on the trains, and all sorts of other nonsense when you move 300,000 people a day, they do well . if the trains are so bad, get in your car every day in any weather and do it yourself. yeah, i thought so .

When was the last public works project completed in NY?
Tappan Zee Bridge -- under construction
East Side Access -- under construction
Second Ave Subway -- under construction
Another tunnel under the Hudson River -- Forget about it

All of the above are delayed and over budget. If it were not for Robert Moses, LI would be a more of a disaster today
Once NY State starts to invest money in its crumbling infrastructure, then driving would be a alternative

It's a pretty big cluster---- out there thanks to him. I can't believe that guy gets credit for anything he's did around here. Where else in the country are you going to have our lovely NY drivers trying to do 80 around all of those 25mph curves on the SSP? Or having to get down from 65-10 to make an exit while dodging people who can't merge on? And the worst part is the way it was designed left no room for straightening or expansion (minus a few small projects over the years). He crippled Long Island about as much as he did good.

And this leaves ... public transportation as the only alternative

gotta love guys like commuter x. they are against pretty much everything, but never offer an alternative. im sure if we knew what he did for a living, we could rip it to shreds. i seem to remember medicine?

puckhead wrote:gotta love guys like commuter x. they are against pretty much everything, but never offer an alternative. im sure if we knew what he did for a living, we could rip it to shreds. i seem to remember medicine?

Here's one ...

We live on a g-d dammed island. Why isn't there ferry service to/from Manhattan?
No traffic, congestion or boats in front of you

commuter x - R Moses refused to run a rr line down the middle of the LIE - "I build roads - not trains"

REM3Night wrote:commuter x - R Moses refused to run a rr line down the middle of the LIE - "I build roads - not trains"

Your point is ...
Robert Moses has been dead for 33 years

Commuter X wrote:We live on a g-ddam island. Why isn't there ferry service to/from Manhattan?
No traffic, congestion or boats in front of you.

Rockaway Ferry.

R36 Combine Coach wrote:

Commuter X wrote:We live on a g-ddam island. Why isn't there ferry service to/from Manhattan?
No traffic, congestion or boats in front of you.

Rockaway Ferry.

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smallish ferries arent cost effective, large ones like the staten island ferries wont have enough passengers. plus, when the weather is bad, and the ferry is 5min 59 sec late, who would you complain to?

I wish I could grow such a great mustache .

There is only so much the RR can do, with the amount of trains they run. It only takes one problem to screw up the whole system. One train Breaks down, one switch goes bad, one pedestrian accident, one sick passenger, creates a domino effect that can cause delays on the whole system.
Then there are weather related problems and the like. It is what it is, has been for decades.
When I worked there, the Port Washington Branch always had the best on time perfromance. The Railroad had this big study trying to figure out why.
They even posted congratulations in the trainmans room in Port Wash to the train crews.
Then they asked a Conductor why the Port Wash Branch did so well. His ans was simple.. "Its the only Branch that does not go through Jamaica, and get caught in the bottleneck there".

Doc Emmet Brown wrote:There is only so much the RR can do, with the amount of trains they run. It only takes one problem to screw up the whole system. One train Breaks down, one switch goes bad, one pedestrian accident, one sick passenger, creates a domino effect that can cause delays on the whole system.
Then there are weather related problems and the like. It is what it is, has been for decades.
When I worked there, the Port Washington Branch always had the best on time perfromance. The Railroad had this big study trying to figure out why.
They even posted congratulations in the trainmans room in Port Wash to the train crews.
Then they asked a Conductor why the Port Wash Branch did so well. His ans was simple.. "Its the only Branch that does not go through Jamaica, and get caught in the bottleneck there".

Nowadays the Port Wash doesn't do so well. Top of the list are Hempstead and Far Rock, so I guess the congestion is moreso NYP-HAROLD than Jamaica.

..or because service patterns change?

I doubt they ran as many 12 car trains down to Port Wash back in the day.

Amtrak7 wrote:

Doc Emmet Brown wrote:There is only so much the RR can do, with the amount of trains they run. It only takes one problem to screw up the whole system. One train Breaks down, one switch goes bad, one pedestrian accident, one sick passenger, creates a domino effect that can cause delays on the whole system.
Then there are weather related problems and the like. It is what it is, has been for decades.
When I worked there, the Port Washington Branch always had the best on time perfromance. The Railroad had this big study trying to figure out why.
They even posted congratulations in the trainmans room in Port Wash to the train crews.
Then they asked a Conductor why the Port Wash Branch did so well. His ans was simple.. "Its the only Branch that does not go through Jamaica, and get caught in the bottleneck there".

Nowadays the Port Wash doesn't do so well. Top of the list are Hempstead and Far Rock, so I guess the congestion is moreso NYP-HAROLD than Jamaica.

Hourly service certainly helps Hempstead and Far Rock OTP numbers. Nowadays, one late train on the Port Wash messes up everything by 5-10 minutes.