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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Thu Jan 10 19:25:25 2008, in response to Re: How the LIRR and Nassau PD Conspire Against Commuters, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Jan 10 19:09:04 2008. The trains are longer on the busier lines, and they usually need the full length trains. The Flatbush line stations can't handle the longer trains they run on Babylon, Huntington, and Ronkonkoma. This isn't about "deserving", it's about operational functionality.According to my observations, the Huntington/Babylon trains that currently go to Flatbush Avenue during the rush usually only have 6 cars and seem to do fine with that amount, but maybe I am wrong. I've only observed one of those kind of trains twice, once at Hicksville and once at Rockville Centre, both times during the PM Rush. At Hicksville a huge crowd got off there, but it seemed like there was enough room on board. At Rockville Centre, not as many people got off, but the train did have a few standing passengers on it, in both cases, the sets were 6 cars long. I am not sure about the Ronkonkoma runs although I cannot imagine them having more than 8 cars. |
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