
NOW EVERYONE WANTS TO GO HOME AND GET THERE UNHARMED BUT DAYS LIKE THIS ARE RIPE FOR DISASTER AS PEOPLE STANDING IN AISLES, IN THE DOORWAYS, EVEN IN BATHROOMS! RIDERS WERE JERKED AROUND AS THE TRAIN SPEEDED UP AND SLOWED DOWN, IT WAS VERY HOT THAT THURSDAY AND WHEN YOU OVERPACK A TRAIN IT GETS HOT AND PEOPLE GET NASTY AS RIDERS ARGUED OVER HOW MANY PEOPLE FIT ON THE FOLD DOWN JUMP SEATS AND TO REALLY DIG SALT IN THE WOUND THIS TRAINMEN OR CONDUCTOR DECIDED TO PUSH HIS WAY THROUGH THE CARS AND COLLECT FARES FROM THOSE STANDING AND VERY AGITATED IN THIS AREA THIS COLLECTOR WAS RIDICULED AND TOLD TO GO F___ HIMSELF IF HE THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO COLLECT ANYTHING FROM THIS PARTICULAR GENTLEMEN WHO WAS STANDING SINCE PENN STA. AND MOVED AROUND AS THIS NOT VERY SMART TRAINMEN MADE HIS WAY COLLECTING FARES FROM THOSE STUCK STANDING, THIS TRAINMEN DECIDED IT WAS BEST TO MOVE ON BUT COULDNT GET THROUGH THE NEXT CAR AND HAD TO PUSH THROUGH THE GAUNTLET OF PASSENGERS AGAIN. MY PERSONAL OPINION ON THIS MATTER OF SHOULD A RIDER MADE TO STAND BECAUSE THE TRAIN WAS CHANGED AND MADE OVERCROWDED PAY TO STAND AND I DECIDED THAT I WOULD NOT PAY NEITHER AND IF IT MEANT GETTING THROWN OFF I'D GET OFF! THE LIRR HAS NO REPECT FOR PASSENGERS AND THIS IS ALSO OBVIOUS WHEN THEY POST A TRAIN ON A PENN, STA, PLATFORM AND ITS A SWELTERING 120 DEGREES DOWN THERE AND THE TRAIN IS STILL 10 MINUTES FROM PLATFORMING THIS IS VERY SCREWED UP AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS AND WHEN SOMEONE FAINTS ON TO THE TRACK I WILL BE THERE TO TESTIFY AND SHOW PROOF OF THIS PRACTICE AND IF SOMEONE WERE TO BE INJURED ON OVERPaCKED TRAINS THAT THE LIRR KNOWS IS DANGEROUS I WILL ALSO BE THERE TO DO WHAT I CAN FOR THE COMMUTER INJURED, AND WHEN A COMMUTER FAILS TO PAY DUE TO OVERCROWDED CONDITIONs THAT FORCE HIM OR HER TO STAND I WILL BACK THAT COMMUTER UP AS MUCH AS IS LEGAL, THESE CONDITIONS AND PRACTICES BY THE LIRR/MTA WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THE RIDERS FORCE THEM AND AFTER 10 YEARS OF COMMUTING I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE I ALSO KNOW THINGS HAVE NOT GOTTEN ANY BETTER IGNORING THEM.........