POLL: How Would You Grade LIRR Service?

A Long Island Rail Road strike was averted after the Metropolitan Transit Authority and unions were able to come to a tentative agreement.

The new deal "provides a fair and reasonable contract," said MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast, saying it offers "wages that our employees deserve, hardworking employees that need to be able to stay where they need to be financially, and in a way that protects the commuter as well as the long term fiscal stability of the MTA." Read the story here.

The details of the final contract were not announced during the press conference so that the 5,400 employees could be fully informed. Prendergast confirmed that the worker raise is still 17 percent but other issues were adjusted. He also said the agreement will put no additional pressure on riders and that fares will not be increased past the rate of inflation.

How would you grade the current LIRR service? What are your suggestions for improving it? Vote in the poll above and give us your suggestions in the comments.

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