The ticketed seating area shuts down after the last Amtrak departure of the night, which is currently around 9 PM. LIRR of course is 24/7, so if you go to a game at MSG you have to stand around until your train instead of sitting in a waiting room like a civilized human.

That's Phase 3 and Phase 4.

We used to have them from the 1930s to 1960s. Visit the transit museum's triplex cars. This isn't new technology.

More like 50+ years in the making. The LIRR uses the lower level of the 63rd Street Tunnel, directly under the F.

It was an open seat because Suozzi wanted to primary Hochul and one of the fundamentals of election law is that you can only run for one seat at a time. He ended up finishing behind Jumaane Williams. Couldn't even get 100K votes even with his name recognition in Nassau.

This wasn't even his first time on the ballot. He lost to Suozzi in 2020.

It did, but that was a century ago and that was done by running Atlantic Branch trains over the Williamsburg Bridge. The track connection for that was physically severed long ago.

No, seating has been physically closed off behind locked gates and roped off areas, which has directly negatively impacted me quite a few times recently when wanting to grab something to eat before getting on Metro North to head to Westchester. Maybe when East Side Access opens they'll reopen the seating in the Dining Concourse since one of the main paths to get to the LIRR will be that way but for now it's been intentionally turned into a shell of it's former self.

It's not great, it completely fucks over commuters that want to grab something to eat before a train, which is what the dining concourse is built for. It's intentionally turning wide swaths of the station into a closed off area at the detriment of commuter convenience.

You mean the completely closed off seats and roped off benches?

Can't speak about day to day use but the few times I needed to use them with luggage on various trips, it was very convenient to just put the bags in that space.

> I think to make this somewhat efficient they really need to redesign the seats so that more of them can be folded up and strollers aren’t in the way. I’m not sure what that looks like but it should at least be considered.

Montreal actually has that solved. It's a pretty simple solution: seats that by default are folded into the up position. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/aogi3u/apparently_were_getting_new_buses_the_whole_bus/ and https://cptdb.ca/wiki/images/3/3c/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_de_transport_de_Montr%C3%A9al_29-844_interior-a.jpg. It also makes the wheelchair boarding process slightly quicker as a nice bonus.

Cleveland's was the first to do it in North America.

Sure, give Diwali off, but also keep Brooklyn-Queens Day. Just extend the school year by a day in June to keep the 180.

It gets logged in COMPSTAT.

Did you call the cops?

Not even close to the same as being down in the depths of Penn.

Why are LIRR waiting rooms hours curtailed on afternoons, nights, and weekends when the system runs 24/7?