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Re: Summer Only East End Service?

 by ADL6009 ¦  Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:10 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Summer Only East End Service? ¦  Replies: 145 ¦  Views: 13040

[quote="peconicstation"] Preface: As a year round, North Fork resident, I say to the MTA/LIRR, GOOD, AND GET LOST, we RARELY if ever, use the LIRR, a we have far more frequent, year round, Hampton Jitney service. That said, do even think of running this line "summer only", we wil...

Re: Fares

 by ADL6009 ¦  Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:24 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Fares ¦  Replies: 63 ¦  Views: 4529

Sometimes the amount of money I charge people makes me feel sorry for them. I just had a lady, not affluent, with two teenage children, going between Middletown, NJ and New York, Friday (peak,) Saturday and Sunday. She paid 187.50. These fares are crushing for some people. $187.50 ???!? is this the...

Re: minimum cars open

 by ADL6009 ¦  Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:24 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: minimum cars open ¦  Replies: 14 ¦  Views: 2070

*Correction*
it was General Notice 1-23 Paragraph B that changed SI 1901-M (not GN 1-22 as i had stated earlier).

Re: minimum cars open

 by ADL6009 ¦  Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:29 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: minimum cars open ¦  Replies: 14 ¦  Views: 2070

See General Notice 1-22. Special Instruction 1901-M has been modified, allowing for more cars to be closed at certain hours. I think maybe the RR just realized it was not practical or safe to have all cars open with only 2 crew members at 3am. also, as some insiders here have acknowledged fare colle...

Re: Crossing Gate Question

 by ADL6009 ¦  Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:00 am ¦  Forum: Operations, Facilities, Maps and Resources ¦  Topic: Crossing Gate Question ¦  Replies: 25 ¦  Views: 5385

why not just leave the gates down and let the traffic build up? hopefully enough angry motorists will complain that the RR would re-install the key-override feature for the gates. what exactly is the official policy of your RR when your train is causing the crossing protection to remain in the down ...

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