LIRR FIRST COMMAND: DON’T CATCH FIRE

“LIRR’s command upgrade will make ‘rail’ difference” , Newsday, August 29, 2010 
How ’bout this for Command No. 1 at the LIRR’s new state-of-the-art Command and Control Center?
Don’t. Catch. Fire.
Unplanned conflagrations like the one that knocked out a 1913 switching room at Jamaica station can be truly catastrophic. Nearly a week after Monday’s cable fire, train service [...]

TAKE MY SEAT, PLEASE! POLITE IN THE SUBWAY

“Etiquette Enforcement,” Ellis Henican Blog, “The Huffington Post,” June 24, 2009
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has officially decided we’re not polite enough.
They should know, right?
These are the people who have done so much to coarsen the local language with expressions like “The train will be moving shortly” (yeah, right!) and “I have no idea how to [...]