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Riders sound off on MTA, LIRR salaries

Quick ReadLIRR riders expressed various opinions about salaries paid to MTA workers.

Commuters wait to board an incoming westbound train

Photo credit: Newsday/ J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Commuters wait to board an incoming westbound train at the Freeport LIRR station. (March 10, 2010)

Long Island Rail Road riders interviewed Wednesday expressed various opinions - few of them positive - about salaries paid to Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers.

According to data published Wednesday by the Empire Center for New York State Policy, more than 8,000 MTA workers - more than 10 percent of the agency's workforce - made six figures in total yearly pay for a second consecutive...

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