A freight train partially derailed at the LIRR Jamaica station during the evening rush hour on May 14, 2014, an incident being investigated by MTA and railway officials. Credit: Uli Seit
Back in May 2011, the Long Island Rail Road admitted that it had dumped heaps of wood and steel alongside the tracks, and that cleanup would become a priority ["Trash by the tracks," News, May 1, 2011].
I have not seen one change in the debris that is along the tracks, right down to shovels, buckets and other still-usable work material.
The LIRR should use these discarded materials or reinstate its Trash Into Cash scrap metal program.
Christine Nowak, Farmingdale
