LIRR strike forces NYC workers into ‘nightmare’ travel that adds hours to commute

Source: New York Post

The Long Island Rail Road strike forced some commuters to waste two extra hours on the road as they scrambled to catch shuttle buses while motorists who drove into the city struggled to find parking Monday morning. Nassau and Suffolk county residents who typically rely on the LIRR to get into work described their trip into the Big Apple as a “nightmare” and “hell” as they were reduced to pawns in the heated bickering between the MTA and the picketing unions. “Everyone’s miserable, but the people really getting screwed are the ones who physically have to show up somewhere,” Wantagh local Kevin Haller, 38, told The Post as he boarded a bus at the Bellmore station.