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LIRR really needs more trains |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Aug 30 11:01:14 2014 The 10:35AM train from Ronkonkoma due Greenport at 12:02PM is operating 15 minutes late due to a high volume of customers traveling.Now with 100% more appropriate board posting. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Aug 30 11:47:55 2014, in response to LIRR really needs more trains, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Aug 30 11:01:14 2014. It's a 2 car train. The last time I took it, in June, they were loading only a single car. They claimed the bathroom wasn't working in the cab car. They were also using only a single door at stations. |
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Re: LIRR really needs more trains |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Aug 30 11:53:11 2014, in response to Re: LIRR really needs more trains, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Aug 30 11:47:55 2014. I posted that specifically because I had never seen this particular tweet for the Greenport scoot, and that they are common on every other line.I rode the scoot once where both cars needed to be opened. There IS demand for this line. |
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Re: LIRR really needs more trains |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Aug 30 12:03:39 2014, in response to Re: LIRR really needs more trains, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Aug 30 11:53:11 2014. Nobody was standing in the single car, even though the Mattituck Strawberry Festival was on. There was a long line for the single working bathroom. The train was delayed. That was due to somebody parking his pickup on the ROW between stations.All the loading delays I've seen have been for diesel territory. The Montauk Branch usually has loading delays. What did the LIRR expect when ordered a car that holds twice the capacity but has the same number of doors as a single decker. At least NJT's double deckers have twice the number of doors per car. I see plenty of electric cars in the yards, when I transfer from the diesels to the electrics at either Ronkonkoma or Babylon. There wouldn't be a "car shortage," if those electrics could run all the way out to the East End. You've noticed a problem - loading delays and reached a conclusion there's a car shortage. The two don't necessarily follow. |
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Re: LIRR really needs more trains |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sat Aug 30 12:55:12 2014, in response to LIRR really needs more trains, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Aug 30 11:01:14 2014. There is no car shortage today. The problem is that the LIRR likely didn't opt to add cars to the Greenport trains even though its a holiday weekend and people will be heading east or for the Ferry |
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