With no LIRR, dad considers 5-mile walk to daughter's school
Rotimi Adebiyi showed up at the St. James LIRR station with a plan to ride east to visit his daughter, but was left stranded when he realized no trains were running.
"I just got to the train station now and discovered that I cannot take a train to Stony Brook,” said Adebiyi, who just arrived on Long Island Friday from Connecticut, where he was visiting his son. "I wasn’t actually informed about [the strike]. It’s really very troubling.”
Adebiyi, who lives in Nigeria, told Newsday he may have to make the 5-mile trek to his daughter’s high school in Stony Brook by foot.
"I don’t know how I am going to get there right now,” he said on Saturday afternoon. "I’ll have to walk or get someone to take me and drop me off.”
Sam Kmack covers the Town of Islip for Newsday. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and previously worked as a city watchdog reporter in the Phoenix metro area, as well as an investigative journalist at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
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