r/LIRR

The day pass stinks. Bring back round trip tickets.

I am kinda joking but I’m on train and there is a LIRR employee on board (in uniform so it’s obvious) and watching videos on his phone with the volume all the way up. As much as I’d like to I do not ask people to use headphones or lower their volume any more. Not worth it. So I rant here. Deal with it.

We will fill the Babylon line and you can’t stop us all

This will be Long Islands Area 51 raid

We will peacefully refuse to buy/activate tickets

And sit on the train

Edit:

The second we organize as a community we can make the LIRR “free”

They literally can’t write us all a summons

The more people in on this the easier it is

**thanks for the dms

Update: thank you for the support guys, can’t wait to make this official, we have around 70-80 people at the moment. I’m proud of the people

All i see is ohhh ooohhh I dont make that much my boss robs me blind and I have to thank him for it, have you considered the value of having a union?

If you had to drive you car into the city: have you considered the value in not going to work until the rail workers are getting paid what their contracts state they should get paid? Can you imagine having solidarity? Rich people do, why dont we?

First off- it is such a creepy pervert action to take pictures of people without their consent and post it online. It is weird and you would be unhappy if someone did it to you.

Their actions do not excuse YOUR actions. Be a better person. If it’s really bothering you that much then take it to the conductor.

Stop taking pictures of people’s feet and uploading them to reddit so you can bitch and moan with a bunch more strangers about somebody doing something that isn’t even affecting you. Just… don’t look at them? If it’s bothering you why are you taking pictures to look at more later?

Creeps.

Why should only the LIRR get that pay scale. I think the LIRR pay scale should apply to all workers of the MTA.

“We all should unite collectively. Do what we need to do to get done because that’s the only way it’s going to get done. And we collectively do it, you know, as a whole and stand on it and be consistent and mean it. You know, we move the city. The city don’t move us.”

I have seen various of photos on this subreddit of people having their feets on the seats or sleeping on the seats like it is a pillow mattress.

I rarely see this behavior on the MNRR.

But why do LIRR riders feel too comfortable to be unclassly on their trains?

Don't even get me started with the trash and litter. This is supposed to be the suburbs, and yet suburban folks are disrespecting the trains their tax money contributed to.

Hey guys, wanted to start a conversation on what the future of the LIRR’s Diesel branches look like. There are many changes on the horizon that will hopefully improve this service, these include:

1. Port Jefferson branch full electrification: MTA and LIRR are committed to electrifying the branch and work might’ve started already if it weren’t for DOT blocking LIRR from acquiring a piece of land near Port Jeff that would be used for a new yard facility for the electric trains. The land transfer was tentatively agreed to by both parties but DOT is now dragging their feet. Without the land transfer, it’s not going to happen.

If they are able to work this out soon, the branch could be electrified in the next 10-15 years and would improve service significantly in almost every way — think the Ronkonkoma branch once it was electrified. Plus, it would free up resources to improve Diesel service on the other Diesel branches.

2. Replacing the DE/DM30AC fleet with new Siemens Chargers SC42-DM locomotives: From my understanding, they are somewhat close to placing the order for new Charger locomotives. This would be huge as the current Diesel fleet is amongst the worst in North American commuter rail. They have an absurdly high failure rate causing frequent delays and the electric mode is borderline unusable at times. They’re also super heavy, underpowered, and controlled by a glitchy computer system still running Windows 98. New locomotives would go a really long way in making service more reliable and slightly faster with better acceleration times on branches with stations close together. However, acquiring new locomotives raises another problem and this leads me to my next point:

3. If LIRR goes ahead with acquiring new locomotives, the current C3 Diesel cars would need to be retrofitted to be compatible with them or buy a completely new fleet of cars: This is interesting to me because LIRR already has an impactful shortage of Diesel cars to begin with. It would cost a ton of money on top of new locos if they were to fully replace them, so my guess is that they will try to retrofit them to make them compatible with the new lcoos instead of buying a whole new fleet of cars. The C3s are in fine condition and a little refresh would have many other benefits like prolonging their life and modernizing the passenger experience. I would think at some point though they would want to purchase brand new cars to help with the shortage and slowly phase out C3s over time.

Anyways, those are my thoughts. Let me know what you guys think.

Debating if I should go into the office today.

If the trains are packed due to an influx of people like me making up time lost from the strike, I will skip.

Hello, I am someone who is disabled and wondering how to avail the LIRR reduced fare.
Is there a document or something that I need to carry?

Context: I am new to the US, so all documents I have are from international sources and they state the disability, etc., in English, but I am not sure if there is a certain certificate that I need.