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Posted by Gold_12th on Wed Sep 17 12:01:15 2014 edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Residents living and working along the Long Island Rail Road's West Hempstead line spoke Monday largely in support of restoring weekend service on the branch. About two dozen people attended a public hearing at Malverne Village Hall to discuss the LIRR's plan to bring back weekend West Hempstead service, eliminated in 2010. Beginning Nov. 22, the LIRR will run trains every two hours on weekends and holidays in both directions on the branch. Overall, speakers at the hearing said they would welcome the return of weekend service, on which residents and businesses relied for decades. "The utter perfection of life in Malverne has always included its proximity to Manhattan," said Ellen Levy, whose family has lived in the village for 61 years. "Please give us back our trains." Not everyone was thrilled by weekend trains returning. Lynbrook resident Susan Ulrich, who lives near the branch's tracks, said the loud trains routinely wake her 1-year-old daughter. Ulrich, who is selling her home, said the primary complaint she hears from potential buyers is "the Long Island Rail Road runs through your back yard." The elimination of weekend trains on the West Hempstead line was among one of the more severe service cuts from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's effort in 2010 to close a $900 million budget gap. The LIRR targeted the line because of relatively low ridership. The agency said at then that only about 350 people rode on the line on weekends. Some speakers noted Monday that new residential developments and businesses have sprung up in the past four years, and have struggled to attract residents and customers without LIRR weekend service. "Not having weekend service is a huge detriment to our community," said Alex Jacobson, owner of the New York Equestrian Center in West Hempstead, two blocks from the Lakeview LIRR station. Jacobson said more than a dozen customers, and a few employees, access his business by train, but can't do so on weekends. LIRR president Patrick Nowakowski at the hearing said the LIRR's increasing ridership, on pace to have grown for the second year in a row, helped make restoration of weekend West Hempstead service possible. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/restoration-of-w-hempstead-weekend-service-gets-warm-reception-1.9320511
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Wed Sep 17 12:07:46 2014, in response to Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Gold_12th on Wed Sep 17 12:01:15 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Dear Mrs. Ulrich: Wasn't the railroad there when you moved in? Was the price of the house a bit cheaper because of that? Regards, Bill from Maspeth
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Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing
Posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Wed Sep 17 14:10:06 2014, in response to Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Gold_12th on Wed Sep 17 12:01:15 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Lynbrook resident Susan Ulrich, who lives near the branch's tracks, said the loud trains routinely wake her 1-year-old daughter. Ulrich, who is selling her home, said the primary complaint she hears from potential buyers is "the Long Island Rail Road runs through your back yard." This branch has been there since her great-great-great grandparents were alive - - if she knew about that then shut up and move elsewhere.
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 17 14:40:26 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Wed Sep 17 12:07:46 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Was the price of the house a bit cheaper because of that? When you're trying to sell and nobody wants your house, then the railroad is a nuisance.
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Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing
Posted by italianstallion on Wed Sep 17 15:48:47 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 17 14:40:26 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d I don't care. The RR was there first.
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Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing
Posted by Joe V on Wed Sep 17 19:04:52 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Wed Sep 17 14:10:06 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Poor (stupid) thing, Ms. Ulrich Pella Windows are cheaper than the closing and moving costs on a new house.
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Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing
Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 17 20:39:32 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Wed Sep 17 14:10:06 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d "if she knew about that then shut up and move elsewhere. " Well, she is trying to move, and nobody is dumb enough to buy her home this time. :-) FWIW, I suspect this behind much of the opposition to the third track on the Main Line. To those residents, it means more noise, and a home that loses value because they're next to a noisy railroad, and there isn't that much of a reduction in property tax.
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Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing
Posted by Edwards! on Wed Sep 17 23:54:08 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 17 14:40:26 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d He knew that when he purchased the house... didn't stop him then.. won't stop the sale now. he has to drop his asking price to something more reasonable.
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Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing
Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Sep 18 00:39:40 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 17 20:39:32 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d To be fair, a third track would also mean the grade crossing gates will be down more. They should couple it with a grade crossing elimination project, either a viaduct like the Babylon branch or (and this would get everyone on board, except for the bean counter$ and railfans) bury it in a tunnel.
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Posted by italianstallion on Thu Sep 18 00:42:46 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 17 20:39:32 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Sorry to be harsh, but no one living next to a RR or a highway should be surprised if that line or road is expanded.
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Sep 18 08:19:36 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Edwards! on Wed Sep 17 23:54:08 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Or find a railfan that considers the proximity a plus.
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Thu Sep 18 09:36:53 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Edwards! on Wed Sep 17 23:54:08 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Who is "He"?
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Sep 18 09:57:42 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Sep 18 08:19:36 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d LIRR = boring.
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Sep 18 10:39:03 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Sep 18 09:57:42 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d West Hempstead boring...nothing but M7's.
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Posted by r33/r36 mainline on Thu Sep 18 13:50:35 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Sep 18 00:39:40 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Can't bury it in a tunnel because of diesels.. also commuter RR stations are not cut off from the outside world with Turnstiles/Fare Control like Subways are and it would arguably be a safety issue.
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Posted by Karl M, Ex New Yorker on Thu Sep 18 13:53:10 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by italianstallion on Thu Sep 18 00:42:46 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d She's lucky they don't run steam locomotives anymore LOL. Karl
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Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing
Posted by Terrapin Station on Thu Sep 18 14:31:50 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Sep 18 10:39:03 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d No. The West Hempstead branch is very cool.
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Sep 18 15:03:17 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Terrapin Station on Thu Sep 18 14:31:50 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d No variety. No M3's, no diesels.
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Sep 18 18:32:18 2014, in response to Re: Restoration of West Hempstead weekend service gets warm reception @ public hearing, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Sep 18 09:57:42 2014. edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Westwood station is very quant.
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