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LIRR doomsday budget could delay fixing gaps

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's doomsday budget would delay completion of the Long Island Rail Road's efforts to fix dangerous gaps between platforms and train cars by as much as two years by cutting the number of workers on the project, LIRR officials said Friday.

Among 327 possible job reductions the LIRR expects by 2010 would be eight positions of the 28 employees working on...

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