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Conductor Fails to Collect Tickets on Train back from Metro-North Meeting About Conductors not Collecting Tickets

October 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

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 to the [...]

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Tags: Conductor Conduct · MTA · Metro-North

Asst. Conductor Sends Metro-North Riders Into Transfer Limbo

August 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 a heavyset [...]

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Tags: Commuting Horror Stories · Conductor Conduct · MTA · Metro-North

Bobby’s Conductor’s Log

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Conductor Conduct

Conductor Bobby Chats Up A Cute Celebrity Among Us On Derailed

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 celebrity [...]

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Tags: Awww How Sweet · Conductor Conduct · Entertainment · MTA · Metro-North · Uncategorized

Conductor Dresses Down Ticketless Customer This Morning – TrainJotting

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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 getting harassed [...]

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Commuting Horror Stories · Conductor Conduct · MTA · Trains