- What's with the older model of trains? Every Monday it seems that the 7:39 a.m. train to Penn Station uses this busted old hunk of steel/aluminum from the 80s. I'm really sick of the nasty bathroom smell, lack of AC, horrible seat cushions, and lack of headrests adequate for a person larger than 5 feet tall. How can we [6'1"] rest during the dreadful hour-long commute, after a long day of work when the top of seat ends at the middle of my back. Not to mention the urine/vomit smell emuliating from the disgusting bathrooms? And we pay $200+ a month for this?
- Five to ten minutes can easily be shaved off the Long Beach-Penn Station commute if the trains go faster than 3 mph from Long Beach to Island Park and vice-versa. Why go so slow? On a hot summer Friday afternoon, again after a long, hard day of work and we pass Island Park heading to LB - hundreds of fellow LIRR riders are standing near the doors desparately waiting to de-train. Simple solution: go faster and we'll get off faster.
- Broken air conditions; you do the math: 80-90 degrees outside + 100% humidity + no windows on train + no ventiation + no additional seats = disaster. $200+ per month for this?
- God forbid we forget our monthly pass on a peak train...$17 for a one-way ticket. There needs to be a way around this BS.
- Announcements: OK, enough already! We know that this is the 7:39 a.m. Long Beach Peak, Express train heading to Penn Station and the next station is Island Park, with stops at ...Do you know how annoying that gets? Especially when you ride day after day, year after year. We know where the damn trash recipticals are located, and also to step over the damn gap between the train and the platform. Holy crap.
- Sleeping on train: many, many people don't shut up...even at 7:30 in the morning. Or they're talking on the phone. Who the hell are they talking to? I really want to smack some of these people. Especially the loud ones; don't they have any respect?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)
LIRR, Long Beach line. Sixe issues I have (as of today):
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