scrabbler1
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For those of you who are not aware, there was a derailment in one of the railway tunnels under New York City's East River last Sunday. An Amtrak train derailed and it took a while to rerail the cars in the tight space and get them out. Now, Amtrak has to repair the damaged 1/4 mile of track before the tunnel can be used again, maybe by Friday.
This has greatly impacted the Long Island Rail Road, the nation's busiest commuter railroad which uses that tunnel to bring trains into Manhattan's Penn Station. About 1/4 of the trains during the rush hours have been either canceled, terminated before Penn Station, or rerouted. [For the record, my former AM train was not affected other than delays or overcrowding, but my former PM train was canceled.]
In my working days, I used the LIRR to get to my office which was in lower Manhattan until 2001, then in Jersey City, New Jersey starting in May (11th, exactly, 10 years ago today!). In its former location, I could take a rerouted train and still get to work. But after my company moved, I had to go into Penn Station and suffer with more of the delays and overcrowding on the trains which were still going into Penn Station.
But since I ERed in 2008, the biggest reason being this damned commute, I can take some pride and joy when I see another news report about the LIRR's problems. I do not know if it is just me, but the LIRR has had more than its shares of problems in the last 2 1/2 years. Whether it is the snowy weather in the last several winters or the fire in a major switching tower last summer which screwed up the LIRR for a few weeks, those thousands of people who ride the LIRR every day have to put with this stuff I was able to rid myself of in 2008. And that doesn't include the fare increases and service cutbacks since I left this commute behind.
For those of you here who still use the LIRR every day, you have my sympathies. Otherwise, as the subject line of this thread suggests...
"I Am Soooooo Glad I Don't Have to Deal with that CR*P Any More!"
This has greatly impacted the Long Island Rail Road, the nation's busiest commuter railroad which uses that tunnel to bring trains into Manhattan's Penn Station. About 1/4 of the trains during the rush hours have been either canceled, terminated before Penn Station, or rerouted. [For the record, my former AM train was not affected other than delays or overcrowding, but my former PM train was canceled.]
In my working days, I used the LIRR to get to my office which was in lower Manhattan until 2001, then in Jersey City, New Jersey starting in May (11th, exactly, 10 years ago today!). In its former location, I could take a rerouted train and still get to work. But after my company moved, I had to go into Penn Station and suffer with more of the delays and overcrowding on the trains which were still going into Penn Station.
But since I ERed in 2008, the biggest reason being this damned commute, I can take some pride and joy when I see another news report about the LIRR's problems. I do not know if it is just me, but the LIRR has had more than its shares of problems in the last 2 1/2 years. Whether it is the snowy weather in the last several winters or the fire in a major switching tower last summer which screwed up the LIRR for a few weeks, those thousands of people who ride the LIRR every day have to put with this stuff I was able to rid myself of in 2008. And that doesn't include the fare increases and service cutbacks since I left this commute behind.
For those of you here who still use the LIRR every day, you have my sympathies. Otherwise, as the subject line of this thread suggests...
"I Am Soooooo Glad I Don't Have to Deal with that CR*P Any More!"