Sep 11 2008
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 evening and as a result every train was delayed for 30 minyuea as they tried to fix the problem. At least I knew about the issuse through Clever Commute and was able to enter the station from the back and not get stuck waiting. But that is beside the point.
How would I fix this problem? Simple, dig more tunnels. I know they are building a tunnel for the west side access but that won’t be done for 5 years. Till then build another tunnel. What’s more, the economy is crappy, use this as a massive public relief project; anyone that wants a good paying job can come and help dig this tunnel. I’m sure we can get it done.
Either hopefully I’ll be moved out to Hoboken early next year and won’t have to deal with these problems.