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The LIRR does not run the trains on time for the most part. The branch I take every day has an on time percentage of 94.2% for last month and six minutes late i
by bradleyjg 10y ago
The LIRR does not run the trains on time for the most part. The branch I take every day has an on time percentage of 94.2% for last month and six minutes late is considered on time. From personal experience, extremely long delays (30 minutes) or canceled trains are about a monthly occurrence.
Also, while you can now buy tickets on your phone, they still use a very labor intensive process of having conductors walk up and down the aisles and check tickets twice per trip. That contributes to the LIRR very high operating costs.
- emodendroket 10y agoI'm more up on the situation in Boston than New York but I doubt the conductor checking the tickets is really that high up there on the list of reasons why both systems have financial troubles (at least except to the extent it enables fare evasion, which is apparently quite common).
- bradleyjg 10y agoThis is a good post on the labor costs savings that could be realized with a proof of payment system: https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/why-labor-efficiency-is-important/ https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/why-...