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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 10h

In New York, rail and local transit have been under the same roof for 57 years, yet the MTA is still the ONLY mainline rail operator in the country that doesn't offer rail riders free/discounted transfers to local transit they operate! And there has never been any real effort to coordinate the two.

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ohhleary @ohhleary.bsky.social · 19h

I've taken 5 subway rides since Monday. The OMNY fare cap tracker is only showing that I've taken four, and my ride history is only showing I've taken two. This system is beyond useless.

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ohhleary @ohhleary.bsky.social · 1d

Oh cool, my OMNY fare cap window changed from a Tuesday start to a Monday start with no explanation.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 22h

But it is mobile ticketing that is causing fare collection failures!!

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

MONEY TRAIN TO THE GAME: "The MTA would have to spend at least $3 million in contracted union fees to provide the same special game-day service to Citi Field as Metro-North gives Yankee fans to go to the House that Ruth Built, data obtained by Streetsblog shows." nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/m...

MONEY TRAIN: How LIRR Unions 'Game' The System - Streetsblog New York City

An old work rule means that the MTA would have to pay millions of dollars just to provide a little extra service after special events like Mets games or the Ryder Cup.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 22h

Like some of the other work rules, there are workarounds they don't bother to try. All of these events are planned in advance, so they can write the extra trains into the crew book assignments like they do with the Holdiay Eve and seasonal trains, but then it'll impact OTP & they care more abt that

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 22h

Most of these runs are pulled off the extra list, which doesn't cost anything extra. Which is probably the same that Metro-North is doing...it's unlikely they are running extra round-trips to Poughkeepsie or New Haven on OT.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 1d

Would be cool if we got some more reporting on the actual issues at hand in the budget instead of flavors of "[Government service] shutdown during the government shutdown" four times a day.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 1d

There are 100% real MTA customer service phone representatives out there telling people that OMNY doesn't work with Visa or Amex, so there is certainly a large cloud of both unofficial and official misinformation out there...
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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 3d

OMNY @mta.info customer service representatives tell a rider that OMNY doesn't work with Visa or American Express cards and that they should open up a new credit card to ride the Subway www.reddit.com/r/OMNY/s/pfg...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 1d

Isn't this just the old Lingo game show?

David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 1d

30 rock-ass game show www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

Wordle Game Show in the Works at NBC, Savannah Guthrie Set to Host

Jimmy Fallon is among the producers of the project based on the New York Times game.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

I don't get the framing of the story like this...if they could pin $18k in tolls on the guy obviously the socks on the plate didn't work.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

Hmm........I wonder why Amtrak is not in a great hurry to have more Metro-North trains running on their portion of the NEC 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 gothamist.com/news/mta-chi...

MTA chief says Amtrak keeps delaying work to build 'goddamn train' in the Bronx

MTA Chair Janno Lieber said Amtrak crews keep missing shifts, sparking chronic delays on a new Metro-North line that aims to fill in a Bronx transit desert.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

There is plenty of seating at GCT already...on the trains! MTA needs to get its head out of its rear and let the passengers decide where they want to wait for their train: www.thelirrtoday.com/2025/08/gct-...

You can take the LIRR out of Penn Station, but you can't take the Penn Station out of the LIRR

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to tour East Side Access a few times over the years it was under construction. During one of the to...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

They do things like this at WTC all the time and it works out fine.

Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 2d

"Oh no, we can't have any seats in the main concourse lest it mess up circulation"... but a piano is okay.

I'm not bitter.

A piano in Grand Central's Main Concourse behind ropes.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

Metro-North has solo conductor trains, LIRR did too on the North Fork until about 10 years ago

The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

With the main stations having fare gates, you could likely get away with just the conductor and the fare gates. The gates would catch most people on one end of the trip (either with a proper ticket or the higher exit fare) and if they miss some intermediate travelers it's not the end of the world.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

But one of those sides has many billions in subsidies from the NY taxpayer to run good service and one doesn't.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 2d

The NYS VTL says vehicles with 15 or more seats can use bus lanes, though NYC's traffic regulations says "buses" without a super clear definition.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 3d

They are far too bad at their jobs to not be civil service employees

The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 3d

Here's a link to the Twitter thread if the screenshot is too garbled x.com/TheLIRRToday...

I don't know how MTA can seriously think OMNY is ready to be the sole payment method for NYCT when its customer service agents are telling people it doesn't work with the largest credit card network on Earth!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 3d

The disastrous OMNY rollout has been made avoidably worse by @mta.info's "customer service"

People MTA have running the phones are tremendously incompetent, and 5.5 yrs since launch we still get stories like this every 1-2 wks

Last yr took me 2 wks/2+ hrs on phone to resolve simple free xfer issue

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 3d

OMNY @mta.info customer service representatives tell a rider that OMNY doesn't work with Visa or American Express cards and that they should open up a new credit card to ride the Subway www.reddit.com/r/OMNY/s/pfg...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 4d

Tough to get anywhere on LIRR this weekend...
—Babylon service cut to hourly, now suspended east of Freeport
—Ronkonkoma service cut to hourly FMD-RON
—No trains east of Ronkonkoma
—No trains on West Hempstead Branch

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