Musings: LIRR workers, I thank you
A Long Island Rail Road train at the Wyandanch station last month. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
I take the Long Island Rail Road every week. I want to thank LIRR workers for keeping trains running for past weeks with minimal delays. They even stayed out all night to fix more than 1,000 feet of broken rail in Farmingdale after a train hit a car stuck on the tracks earlier this month so trains were running by morning rush hour.
During the snowiest, coldest, worst weather ever I had hardly any delays. It happened only once, outside Jamaica when going home, for just 20 minutes, and I could see workers’ footprints in the snow while we waited, and I felt sympathetic but grateful for their braving the bitter cold to fix the frozen switches and broken rails while I sat comfortably in a heated train car.
So, I’m hoping that the LIRR and workers can soon come to an amicable agreement on a new contract and avoid a strike. They deserve a fair deal.
— Diane Ives, Copiague
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