LIRR fixes glitch to station announcements

The Long Island Rail Road has corrected a technical glitch that had left its automated station announcements out of commission since late February, officials said yesterday.

[Rufus]

On Monday, there was an M7 pulling eastbound into Hicksville. The front cars of the train had "Long Island City" on the electronic signs and the back cars said "Ronkonkoma". This system is fixed??

[Pay More Get Less]

The easiest way to fix it it to destroy it. It's useless to anyone who rides the train daily. It's just an annoyance.

[Eneyer]

After only two months and millions of dollars. Guess my train will no longer be terminating at "Hell's Butthole" as announced.

[Ant]

The train are to narrow, and uncomfortable, bring back the old trains PLZ. who cares about the GPS system. let the over paid conductors do something.

[Helena WIlliams]

You think its easy runnning a railroad?
This technology stuff is hard.

I mean, nearly ALL of our efforts go into producing the On Time Performance number, we can't be bothered with actually fixing things or getting trains to run on time.

[Eneyer]

Helena WIlliams wrote:

You think its easy runnning a railroad?
This technology stuff is hard.
I mean, nearly ALL of our efforts go into producing the On Time Performance number, we can't be bothered with actually fixing things or getting trains to run on time.

I knew I was missing something! Gotta get the reports printed...

[Jane from Babylon]

Pay More Get Less wrote:

The easiest way to fix it it to destroy it. It's useless to anyone who rides the train daily. It's just an annoyance.

and the ones who need it don't listen to it anyway. just about every time i'm on an express that skips Jamaica with destination as Babylon--they'll announce over and over where it stops and that it does NOT stop at Jamaica. inevitably there are the dummies who ask (after leaving Penn), "does this train stop at Jamaica?"

[Fed Up]

Jane from Babylon wrote:

<quoted text>and the ones who need it don't listen to it anyway. just about every time i'm on an express that skips Jamaica with destination as Babylon--they'll announce over and over where it stops and that it does NOT stop at Jamaica. inevitably there are the dummies who ask (after leaving Penn), "does this train stop at Jamaica?"

The only thing that makes a train express is the reduced number of stops. The express trains on the Ronkonkoma line take as long as the locals to get to Ronkonkoma. Truth is, they have to slow down for the locals.

[Casey Jones]

I always wondered, what happens if you get off at Hillside and you are not an employee of LIRR?

[Mickey McShankton]

they stab you in the face