By Alfonso A. Castillo and William Murphy, Newsday; May 3, 2018
New LIRR president Phillip Eng on Thursday said he was “outraged” over how Amtrak’s lateness in wrapping up planned overnight repairs near Penn Station snarled the morning commute for tens of thousands of Long Island Rail Road commuters who were forced to deal with delays, cancellations and diversions with little notice.
Shortly before 7 a.m., the LIRR alerted customers that “due to late-clearing Amtrak trackwork in one of the East River Tunnels,” some Penn Station-bound trains would be diverted to Atlantic Terminal, and others canceled. Scattered delays of five to 10 minutes persisted through the morning rush hour.
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