The LIRR Today

What are these red lights for at the St. George bus ramps?

This isn't the first time the MTA's EAGLE teams have been caught coloring outside the lines... www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/15/m... How many years were EAGLE teams demanding riders show their private bank transactions even tho MTA said they shouldn't? Really undermines credibility on fare evasion

For an agency so worked up abt fare evasion, it's amazing how many of its employees responsible for fare collection are so horrifically bad at their jobs... From those who set fare policy, to mismanagers of $1+b fare tech upgrades, lazy conductors, thuggish inspectors Really none of it works well!

This wasn't even an SBS bus, yet these @MTA.info emoyees quite clearly assaulted this passenger attempting to alight the vehicle. How many millions of bus trips is the MTA going to have to convert to make up for the settlement payout they'll have to pay this guy? gothamist.com/news/brookly...

Very serious if this proves out to be true. Seems very close to grossly negligent behavior from the conductor... Sounds like the conductor knew there was a risk of people being dragged, knew they were supposed to monitor the train during departure, but did not over fears of being struck.

Because MTA fare policy is set by people who think all of their riders are theiving fare evaders, and that the customer is always wrong and that their employees always do their jobs correctly.

MTA is now giving summonses to bus riders if they don't have a matching tap in the same direction as the bus. www.reddit.com/r/Brooklyn/s... OMNY determines the direction based on the headsign of the bus Bus operators are notorious for forgetting to update the headsigns at layovers.

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.

Another example of how NY's train designs have fallen way behind the rest of the world. Vending machines onboard trains has become quite common on new rolling stock. Some examples from Innotrans in next post. www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/s/...

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??

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

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!

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...

Instead of addressing the real root cause of these issues (conductors not doing their jobs and collecting tickets), MTA and railroad officials decided it was easier to punish fare-paying riders with higher fares and less flexible tickets, leading to a steep drop in satisfaction as a result.

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...

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

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...

Satisfaction among those who reported they were hit with an $8 surcharge plummeted from 80% to 56%. But even among riders who weren't hit with surcharge, satisfaction scores dropped 4 points. Levina tried to paint this as "quite close", but it was the largest single-period drop (except for ESA)

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...

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

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.