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East Enders decry bid to cut LIRR service

Quick ReadMore than 200 people - many of them elected officials or representatives of labor or community groups - came out to the hearing over the proposed service cuts.

Some opponents of a proposal to cut a one-car train between Ronkonkoma and Greenport who packed a public hearing Monday night said the plan would doom the North Fork to economic stagnation and signal the abandonment of a major part of the Long Island Rail Road service area.

People living in communities across Brookhaven Town also came to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority hearing at...

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