Friday, January 3, 2014

LIRR Operating on Weekend Schedule 1/3, but pulling through

A snow covered Syosset Station
(Photo credit: MTA Flickr)
The Long Island Rail Road will continue to operate on a weekend schedule for the rest of today, Friday, January 3, 2014 as they work to recover from "Winter Storm Hercules."   As I write this now, 12 trains are considered late, but most delays seem to be keeping below 20 minutes, so it appears the LIRR is pulling through this.

Service has yet to be suspended at any point.  Since they're working on a weekend schedule, there is no service east of Ronkonkoma or on the West Hempstead Branch anyways.  The last pair of Greenport scoots (253/256) got annulled last night so they were looking to take a long weekend, and the only other severe delays appear to be on the Montauk Branch, but other than that they're not doing that bad.

Early this morning the LIRR uploaded a bunch of short video clips onto its YouTube channel showing a variety of trains and stations in the snow:

Expect things to start to come together and run more smoothly by sometime later Friday night and then a relatively smooth weekend ahead.

Stay warm!
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2 comments:

  1. Joe VersaggiJanuary 3, 2014 at 2:50 PM

    They are running a Greenport bus. West Hempstead branch's 1,400 daily loadings gets nothing and NICE buses do not honor train tickets. On snow day, MLK day, and President's day, they should at least run a couple of rush hour trains on the West Hempstead branch.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2014 at 8:51 PM

    Maybe the West Hempstead and Hempstead Gardens passengers can be bussed to the closest station (Hempstead or Garden City) and the Lakeview, Malverne and Westwood customers to their closest station (Valley Stream or Lynbrook).

    As for the weekend schedule, why do the printed schedules list the extra trains for snow an MLK if they don't actually run? There was no 6:13 at Merillon. The 7:05 was "17" minutes late, pushing the earliest available train back even more. A typical weekend schedule isn't designed for people trying to get to work early, but instead leisure. Instead, design a snow schedule around a typical work schedule- morning westbound (5:30-8), very limited midday and evening eastbound (3:30-7). While they're at it, Jamaica can be used as a hub instead of connection point. Get on a train to Jamaica and wait there for the next train to either the western terminus in the morning or eastern station in the evening. The trains would rotate every 20 minutes or so to Penn, HPA or Atlantic- three sets for each? This would require travelers to concentrate more on getting to the next station along the route instead of their final destination, and expect a short wait at Jamaica instead of one long concentrated wait for a direct train or timed connection.

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