Happy Friday! So far it's been rather decent smooth sailing into Memorial Day weekend, as only some of the key Montauk trains ran late, and none of them ran over 12 minutes late. We'll have to see as we get further into the weekend, how things go, but I don't have high hopes and I expect a busy summer.
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It was a rough Thursday morning on the Babylon Branch, as a 65 year old man was struck and killed by the 5:24 train to Grand Central east of Amityville around 5:31am
And Newsday published an article about the "Cannonball", which if you somehow don't know is the non-stop express train from Penn Station to the Hamptons and Montauk on Friday afternoons.
Metro-North ridership is also up, an interesting trend, and no, it doesn't involve the strike, since it was the ridership from March.
Anyways, so far, like I said earlier, OTPs have been fairly steady, but we'll have to see if the LIRR can keep it together as we go through the weekend. I, for one, don't have the highest hopes, and I expect it'll pretty much be a complete repeat of last year.
There's no trackwork this weekend, but, there are some service changes in effect, and if you'd like to see them, click here!
Have a good Memorial Day weekend!