Last night, I attended a Connecticut Rail Commuter Council Meeting at Metro-North headquarters above Grand Central. In attendance were senior management from Metro-North, including President Howard Permut. Among the topics on the Council’s agenda was their longstanding issue with ticket collection – specifically, how often it doesn’t happen. After the meeting I took the 6 [...]

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StationStops reader ‘Abby’ writes of her recent horror story on Metro-North: Yesterday evening (August 11th) my elderly mother and I were traveling from Grand Central Terminal to Redding, CT. We boarded the 6:42pm train out of GCT, planning to transfer at South Norwalk for the Danbury line. The Assistant Conductor punched our tickets. He was [...]

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I urge you to go over and take a peek at Bobby’s Conductor Log for yesterday. It is a great peek into a conductor’s daily life – I would gladly read a log like this daily.

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I figure of the cool parts of being a Metro-North Conductor (besides the pimp hat) is that you get to see most of the riders on the train up close while collecting tickets (hm, now that I read that, probably not always so cool). It is ALWAYS cool, however, when the rider is a cute [...]

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Every week, it seems like themes evolve in my blog across posts that are totally unintentional. Like, in the same week I fill find myself posting two or more times about sleeping, or eating, or accidents, or mole people who live under NYC, etc. Its totally unintentional, it just happens. On Monday, I wrote about [...]

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