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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.
Crime & Safety Ex-LIRR Worker Pleads Guilty To Falsifying Report Pre-Derailment: Feds "Falsifying inspection reports puts the safety of the public and MTA employees and property at risk."
The average pay for an LIRR employee was $106,103 in 2014, a 27 percent increase over 2013. The large pay increase in 2014 was partly due to $431 million paid out for retroactive raises dating ...
The LIRR determined Conklin falsely indicated he inspected a broken rail bond about a month earlier on April 26, prosecutors said. The broken rail bond caused the derailment, prosecutors said.
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]
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]
Former Rocky Point resident John Nugent, a 50-year-old former LIRR crew foreman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and admitted he collected about $34,000 in bogus overtime pay back in July and agreed ...
Little Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, New York City.The station is at Little Neck Parkway and 39th Road, about half a mile (800 m) north of Northern Boulevard.