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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 06/10/2026

New schedules for the Pennsylvanian are up, and they look a lot better. Wish 44 was even later...

The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 06/10/2026

Yeah, but if you have both work and personal trips you have an endless list of MTA*NYCT PAYGO transactions and no way to see the exact location/time of the transaction. Would be a big help if they included some basic details about the trip on your statement....

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 06/10/2026

Contactless payments now account for only about 18% of trips on WMATA Metro Rail. The wide majority of riders are still using Smart Trip cards, about a third on mobile and two-thirds physical cards.

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

There is still a special mode they are supposed to put the OMNY system in so it doesn't charge fares.

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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 · 27/09/2026

The MTA has tried to whitewash these changes with conjured up claims of pervasive fare evasion on the railroads. But actual data doesn't backup these claims. MTA data shows that only 0.068% of riders were issued & didn't pay an invoice in 2025, only 0.003% got summons Meaning 99.29% pay their fare

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

Right, our interpretations of ADA, which we pick and choose when to ignore and when to use as an excuse for doing something dumb. No way "Forest Hills-71 Av" meets ADA text hight requirement on this overhead screen. But ok if we leverage the full suite of tools to communicate with all riders.

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

The more I think about it, the more I believe the MTA's carpet-bombing of in-system PSA's is very problematic. MTA thinks the answer to anti-social behavior is to just run another ad campaign. No! Have clear rules and enforce them. It's a huge cost and obviously ineffective at solving problem.

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

NYC MTA: randomly play announcements on the Subway about how "there are more than 150 accessible stations" and that you should check the website for elevator status (while in a tunnel with no signal) Hamburg: alert bus passengers real-time about elevator outage issues at connecting transit stations

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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

Had to give this one an American flare

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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 · 23/09/2026

Lots of moving pieces, but you'd think with so many Ronk trains canceled they'd at least try to scrounge up some 12 car sets instead of sending trains out 4 cars short, jammed full. Or add more trains to Babylon (extra trains, not extending already full Wantagh trains that go to Bab Yd anyways)

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

We were trying to get from Versailles to Paris when all RER service through Versailles-Chantiers was disrupted due to signal issues. SNCF staff came down and told us to take the local bus a few stops up road to Versailles-Rive Droite, where we were able to take a different line.

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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

Some observations from [my] day 1 at InnoTrans: On the technology front, the word that jumps to mind is: ubiquity There isn't a ton of things that are particularly novel or unique. Rather, the tech is maturing and everyone has more or less similar offerings. Fewer prototypes, more proven solutions

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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

Nor does it seem the baggage handlers have ever seen a plane before, somehow needing an additional 45 minutes and counting to get the bags loaded...

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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

Don't even need all of that. They can run exactly that service pattern (hourly local trains to Shirley, bi-hourly express trains to Montauk) with the infrastructure, crews, and equipment they have right now. www.thelirrtoday.com/2022/11/east...

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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 · 30/08/2026

The question comes down to whether you want the schedule to optimize ridership at the local stops between PGH and HAR, or make it a pseudo-overnight train that links PGH to the big cities. The current schedule kills an entire day and isn't useful for people trying to use it to get from A to B.

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

Much to my surprise, it works for one-way and half-fare tickets as well, not just day passes (which are a scam). The discount is taken off per ticket. Buy two one-way off-peak CityTickets and you only have to pay $0.25 each way. A reasonable fare for a LIRR trip, for once!

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

Still nothing on the MTA app or the website

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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

The RPA's idea for Newark was pretty interesting. Ship has mostly sailed though with a brand new terminal A

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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 · 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

More service at the local stations in Queens is a worthy goal, but it should not turn trips to Port Jefferson into 2+ hour slogs. Super local trains stopping at Hillside, Hollis, and Queens Village enroute to Port Jeff? May as well just shoot me now! No wonder everyone drives to Ronkonkoma...

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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

Major prob is LIRR's consist planning 80% of the overcrowded trains in June were ran with less than 12 cars! Longer trains would be an easy way to make off-peak travel more comfortable. Like a lot of MTA issues, this could be addressed if MTA actually cared & did its job bsky.app/profile/airl...

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

The LIRR boasted about record-high off-peak ridership in June, but forgot to mention that it was also the month with the most overcrowded trains since the pandemic....221 trains exceeded the loading guidelines in June (and that doesn't even count diesel trains) 122 of these trains were off-peak!

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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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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 17/08/2026

This is such a ridiculous claim from Lieber... LIRR has nothing close to the spare rolling stock to increase service to NY-Penn Station by 20%, so is the problem really Amtrak's repair work or hos organization's fleet procurement practices??

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