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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 9h

I've become convinced that NYC is an appalling failure of governance. It's a city drowning in entirely solvable problems, flapping its hands uselessly as it sinks underneath.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12h

We need safer bike lanes, but why was this commute 20 mins by bike vs. 60 by transit to begin with? Reporting hints that she lived either near Jamaica or Middle Village, worked in East NY. Both would be MUCH faster if we built the transit we're paying for: pedestrianobservations.com/2023/06/18/a...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 29/09/2026

Over the last 2 weeks, the flight I'm due to take back to the US tomorrow has been canceled 3 times, diverted to Syracuse, and tonight pushed back 8 hours 31 minutes late (after taking another 2.5 hour delay on the ground after the inbound plane arrived late)

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 29/09/2026

Very tragic and sad news... www.amny.com/news/brookly... Buy I disagree with the article characterizing this as a "freak accident". We spend billions every year to keep conductors on Subway trains to be an extra set of eyes to prevent tragedies exactly like this. What happened??

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Brooklyn commuter dragged to his death by A train after his bag gets caught in doors | amNewYork

Police are investigating a horrific death at a Brooklyn subway station on Monday evening in which a man was fatally dragged by a moving train in an apparent

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 29/09/2026

This is a lame excuse, we spent three-quarters of a billion dollars on OMNY OMNY should 100% have the capability to program temporary and extra transfers to get people around disruptions Not just shuttle buses, but also additional out of system subway-to-subway xfers so you can walk to nearby line

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 28/09/2026

Let me know when we can try this one...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 28/09/2026

They don't. MTA's Kaufman said this during the meeting. Basically b/c ridership and revenue are growing, the new policies must be working. Oblivious to these other obvious market factors What MTA fails to realize is that they could trade weak 5% ridership growth for 15+% if they stopped being dumb!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 27/09/2026

For the second time in 3 years, LIRR's satisfaction scores dropped have dropped sharply, this time over the new ticket policies implemented earlier this year Both times, riders strongly voiced concerns with the proposals, yet the MTA went ahead with them anyway www.thelirrtoday.com/2026/09/sati...

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LIRR, Metro-North satisfaction drops sharply with new ticket policies

For the second time in the last 3 years, the LIRR's customer satisfaction scores have dropped sharply, this time falling seven percentage po...

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/09/2026

Janno Lieber likes to blame Mamdani’s free bus campaign and Covid for muddying the waters and worsening bus fare evasion. Meanwhile, Lieber’s own buses are confusing riders in multiple ways (this bus is not going to Court Sq!) by flashing a “FARE REQUIRED” message on a free subway replacement bus

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 27/09/2026

The fact that the MTA uses 50% of their available space to display useless PSAs (when was the last time you saw someone bring a dog on the bus? Or put their dog in a carrier in the subway, for that matter…) is a perfect demonstration of their failure to understand their job.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 27/09/2026

Does the MTA even place ads on these bus screens? All I've seen is their propaganda PSA's...

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Adam Fisher-Cox @adamfishercox.com · 27/09/2026

So much room for improvement in transit software/display design in the US, made worse by the fact that they could just copy what’s already out there in other countries.

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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 27/09/2026

But have you considered all of the loose pets on the bus in Hamburg?

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 27/09/2026

One of the things that again struck me at Innotrans was how very few exhibitors showcased solutions and examples from the Americas. And the few that were on display just look like s—t compared to their international peers. Look at these bus displays, same hardware, very different info quality!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 25/09/2026

How's that for a railfan window?

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 24/09/2026

One nice touch you see on inter-city trains outside the US is that the conductor/train manager gets their own little office that they can use, instead of taking up 7 of the 8 tables in the café car like they do on Amtrak...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 24/09/2026

COVID-19 was 6.5 years ago at this point. Ridership should be even bigger and better now! Everyone else moved on years ago. It's only the nation's transit agencies that wake up each morning scratching their heads wondering why things aren't the same as they were 7 years ago...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 23/09/2026

RT I've spent last 2 wks travelling by rail across France and Germany. The trains over here are by no means a picture of perfect reliability. But the major difference is there's just so much more redundancy in the network that when delays do happen, it's not as hard to keep moving.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 23/09/2026

I'll believe it when I see it... Virtually every fare change the MTA has made in the last ~4 years have made things less flexible and more expensive for riders. They don't seem to be learning any lessons.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 23/09/2026

Good morning from InnoTrans in Berlin... The display yard at the convention is full with some of the newest and most innovative train designs out there. Missing are any 65-ton stainless steel rectangles from the Americas. Hmm... 🤔

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 22/09/2026

These builders grounded their scaffold by welding a wire to the running rail of the street tram. How many reams of forms and insurance paperwork would be needed to do this with the MTA in New York?

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 21/09/2026

Longest Transit GO trip I've done (and the app didn't crash, lol)

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 17/09/2026

Acceptable headways for a metro service at 7:48pm (and this line isn't even automated)

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 17/09/2026

👀👀👀 I was buying some tickets from Germany's Deutch Bahn and tried paying with my pre-tax transit card. Much to my surprise, it not only didn't decline, but it actually converted Euros to dollars, approved, and substantiated the transaction. Nice!!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 15/09/2026

When can we scrap micromanaging flight attendants demanding to see your boarding pass at aircraft door? Certainly we should be able to have a sign guiding people to their seats? We are toasting on the jetbridge because people need to fish out their boarding passes for the first time all day...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 10/09/2026

OMNY continues to be a disaster

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 09/09/2026

The amount of subsidies the MTA is raking in its miles ahead of pre-COVID levels, so they don't care. Similar issue on the railroads. Fare policy is a very effective knob that can be turned to boost ridership. But MTA would rather nuke that than make conductors to their jobs.

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ohhleary @ohhleary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lower ridership allows the MTA to justify reducing service further and raising fares to increase revenue. This is a vicious cycle and it's why getting rid of monthly unlimiteds was the dumbest thing the MTA did... unless their intention was actually to reduce ridership to justify service reductions.

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ohhleary @ohhleary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Of course I take the free Citibike ride, because I paid for that upfront... just like I would've seen the subway ride as free if I paid for a monthly unlimited upfront. The MTA's fare policy literally discourages ridership. Discouraging ridership means we'll never get back to pre-Covid levels.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 07/09/2026

Seeing lots of photos of messed up rollsigns now that R68's are moving over to Broadway www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/s/... NYCT cycles N/W trains at Astoria so rollsigns need to be changed manually every other trip Is there a plan to keep these straight or will trains be a mystery for next few years?

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 06/09/2026

This seems to be a pretty serious safety lapse from the train operator. If he was told of flagging, they should have exercised increase caution and radioed to ask what was going on....

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 04/09/2026

Question is will PANYNJ soften the major fare hikes since ridership is exceeding expectations, or will they be greedy like the MTA and shoot themselves in the foot by sacrificing further growth for higher fares?

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@thelirrtoday.com points out that east end ridership keeps increasing on the LIRR and the railroad sorta hates that and refuses to figure out how to capture that market.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 31/08/2026

Joke of a fare payment system. Money Thrown Away...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 31/08/2026

Bad day on Central Park West... Things happen, but if there is no downtown service and they are diverting B service, shouldn't there be more than a C train every 20+ minutes at these local stops? MTA needs to put more effort into mitigating disruptions.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 30/08/2026

Extending the 5:13pm train to Montauk year-round is a nice boost, but again the LIRR has a huge travel time problem. Even with a one-seat ride, this trip is sloooow since it makes all local stops between Babylon and Montauk. 3 hours 17 minutes 💀

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 29/08/2026

Going to see the Mets, and tried out the $5 LIRR discount promotion. It's a bit of a process (you have to buy tickets, then 'purchase' the code separately, the morning of game you get a link which attaches the discount in TrainTime), but it does work.

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KennyGoo @kennygoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The lack of transparency on MTA alerts has gotten really frustrating. Similarly true when there *is* an alert but they make it seem like a minor disruption but then it takes 30 minutes to make a few local stops 😑 Doesn't help that the conductors are always unintelligible!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 28/08/2026

No reported delays on the R, but there is a 30 minute gap in Brooklyn-bound service in the middle of rush hour!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 26/08/2026

If only there was One fare payment system for all of Metro New York 🤔🤔🤔

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 25/08/2026

Same train was 6 minutes late...then 5 minutes early...then 5 minutes late again. Imagine if this was a real railroad with real schedules. Maybe we'd be able to get places in a timely manner once in a while instead of fluffing up LIRR's OTP stats.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 24/08/2026

So what did the MTA honestly expect with this? Unless MTA is prepared to use its preemption powers and build itself, no municipality is going to want these guys to come in and tell them how to do things. $1 million down the drain for another study that will rot on shelf... libn.com/2026/08/24/m...

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MTA push for new housing at LIRR stations goes off the rails - Long Island Business News

The MTA spent nearly $1 million on studies for housing at LIRR stations but faced strong pushback from local officials.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 23/08/2026

Get involved in transit advocacy in a major metro area in a blue state and see what European levels of funding buy in American cities! Sales taxes, payroll taxes, gas taxes, mortgage recording taxes, fares – we’ve got it all, tens of billions to spend! Come on in, the water’s warm!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 23/08/2026

Gothamist is missing an s. YEARS of delays... Remember when MTA said the OMNY app was coming in late 2019? Swing and a miss!

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 23/08/2026

A big problem since East Side Access has been the steady erosion of travel times. LIRR used to do HVL-JAM-NYK in 40 minutes. None do it that fast today. There's 1 AM Peak train that does it in 41 minutes. But most are now 45-50+. Certainly helps fluff up the OTP stats...

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 22/08/2026

The MTA has a huge workmanship problem...the G train tunnel under Newtown Creek has been closed a double-digit number of weeks since Hurricane Sandy but they still need more outages to do more work. Crazy.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 21/08/2026

6 minutes late and standees in most cars on this inbound train with only 8 cars. When will @mta.info LIRR even _try_ to make off-peak travel a little more bearable? $2.5 billion for a third track only for LIRR to do the bare minimum.

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