The MTA rolled out a slew of tweaks Monday seeking to allay last week’s commuter rage over crushing crowds on Long Island Rail Road trains and blown connections due to its rushed route change…
But, at least one MTA board member said, the tweaks would likely be insufficient and officials will have to give the schedule a more thorough re-examination, which could take weeks.
More than two dozen LIRR workers were at Jamaica today to help commuters understand the new schedules. Here, an LIRR worker helps a woman find her train.“I think they gotta go back to the drawing board,” he added. “They gotta really sit down and analyze the data and the rolling stock and figure out what they can do. But what they’ve got in place, it’s not gonna work.”
“We’re going to run it much more like a Grand Central to Times Square shuttle so that you see a train there, the train pulls out, there’s going to be another train on the opposite platform with its doors open that you can get into,” she added.” So, the MTA moved a ton of capacity over to Grand Central in two ways: First, shortening the trains running to Penn Station; secondly, axing most one-seat service between Long Island and Brooklyn and replacing it with a new shuttle between Jamaica and Atlantic Terminal.made the switch to Grand Central during the first week, leaving crush load on the trains still bound for Penn Station and overwhelming the Brooklyn shuttle service.The Brooklyn shuttle also proved to be a sore point with riders.
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LIRR adding shuttle trains as part of Grand Central Madison service tweakThe LIRR is adjusting its schedules again this week after riders complained about the changes. HannahKliger has the latest from the Atlantic Branch in Brooklyn.
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These LIRR Schedule Changes Take Effect Monday After Chaotic Grand Central Opening WeekThe Long Island Rail Road rolled out a series of schedule changes Monday intended to address the overcrowding and confusion that dominated the first week of service at the new, and long-awaited, Grand Central Madison station. The station had been touted as the antidote to those scourges, and yet many LIRR riders say the very infrastructure intended to help them…
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