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On December 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson boarded the 5:33 p.m. eastbound train at Penn Station in Manhattan, New York, which stopped at the Jamaica station in Queens.He boarded the third car of the eastbound Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) commuter train from Penn Station to Hicksville, along with more than eighty other passengers.
Schematic diagram of Long Island Rail Road services and stations. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.
"Russell was a dedicated employee who began his career at the LIRR in October of 1982," Williams said. "Our heartfelt condolences go out to Russell's family, friends and co-workers.
In any case, the LIRR articles need to be written from the perspective of the users of the services, not that of the small minority of employees and retired employees--JimWae 02:37, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
The Atlantic Branch is an electrified rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It is the only LIRR line with revenue passenger service in the borough of Brooklyn.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United ...
One employee reported 74 hours of overtime alone per week and was paid over $450,000 for the year. [31] Some Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) employees were using handwritten time records instead of electronic systems, which are easier to track and prevent abuse. [32] [33] MTA had no reliable system for verifying hours worked. [33]
MTA employees also suffered due to the budget issues. By mid-July 2010, MTA layoffs had reached over 1,000, and many of those affected were low-level employees who made less than $55,000 annually. [143] As of 2015, the MTA was running a $15 billion deficit in its $32 billion 2015–2019 Capital Plan. [144]