by lirr42
Earlier tonight I was trying to think of some of the best decisions the Long Island Rail Road has ever made and I thought I would get some input here.
So, in your opinion, what decision do you think is among the 10 best decisions the LIRR has ever made? It can be a decision from any point in the LIRR's history (from the 1800's to today), but the more recent the better (I'm thinking in particular the LIRR in the post-war era, but anything goes). Try to stay away from decisions involving Penn Station since that was technically the Pennsylvania Railroad's thing.
Hindsight is 20/20 and we can sit here and talk for months about all of the bad decisions the LIRR has made, so let's stay away from that conversation (for now) and just stick with the good things.
I will compile a list of everyone's responses and, depending how many responses I get by 1pm Friday, I will either publish the list later this afternoon or sometime over the weekend (I want to give enough people the chance to come up with their own ideas before looking at the list and 'cheating' off others).
There is a link below to a submission form which will allow you to jot down your answer and send it straight to the spreadsheet, or you can reply to this post below, send me a PM, e-mail, or whatever. I will take everything I get from external sources (post replies, PMs, e-mail, etc.) and put it into the spreadsheet manually so there is no need to submit something twice. You can submit as many suggestions as you'd like, I just ask that you submit each response separately if you are using the form (after you submit your first response you will see a link to submit another one).
Link to submission form
So, in your opinion, what decision do you think is among the 10 best decisions the LIRR has ever made? It can be a decision from any point in the LIRR's history (from the 1800's to today), but the more recent the better (I'm thinking in particular the LIRR in the post-war era, but anything goes). Try to stay away from decisions involving Penn Station since that was technically the Pennsylvania Railroad's thing.
Hindsight is 20/20 and we can sit here and talk for months about all of the bad decisions the LIRR has made, so let's stay away from that conversation (for now) and just stick with the good things.
I will compile a list of everyone's responses and, depending how many responses I get by 1pm Friday, I will either publish the list later this afternoon or sometime over the weekend (I want to give enough people the chance to come up with their own ideas before looking at the list and 'cheating' off others).
There is a link below to a submission form which will allow you to jot down your answer and send it straight to the spreadsheet, or you can reply to this post below, send me a PM, e-mail, or whatever. I will take everything I get from external sources (post replies, PMs, e-mail, etc.) and put it into the spreadsheet manually so there is no need to submit something twice. You can submit as many suggestions as you'd like, I just ask that you submit each response separately if you are using the form (after you submit your first response you will see a link to submit another one).
Link to submission form