Tag Archives: LIRR

Why I hate the LIRR

Instead of getting to work at 8:45, like I usually do, I got to work at 10am. Why? Three very simple reasons, signal issues, cancelled train, and a minor accident at Jamaica. I’ve got no idea what the signal issue did, it might have actually caused the accident. But the cancelled train caused me to

The LIRR

And another reason why I want to move off Long Island and to New Jersey: the LIRR only has one tunnel going east and one tunnel going west out of Penn Station. So if a train breaks down in the tunnel, everything behind it gets messed up. Apparently there was a broken train earlier this

Great Weekend

This was a great weekend, unfortunately not a lot of sleep but lots of fun. Friday evening after work, my co-workers and I did a little bit of yoga. This was the first time I have ever done yoga, and the exercises destroyed me by the end of the hour and half. I was dead

A First for the LIRR

I guess there is a first for everything. In all the time I have been taking the Long Island Rail Road, we have never been stopped at a station because we are ahead of schedule. But that’s exactly what happened last night. Apparently the train was going fast enough that we waited an extra three