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Railroad workers on strike, disrupting busiest commuter rail service in U.S. 85%
5/17/2026, 2:22:55 AM
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Tonight workers for the busiest commuter rail service in North America are on strike.
3,500 Long Island Railroad employees walked off the job right here in New York.
CBS's Ali Bauman is at Citi Field, [music] a major stop in the railroad.
Fans and commuters obviously scrambling to figure out how to get from point A to point B.
Ali.
Good evening, Jericka.
The Long Island Railroad is the busiest commuter rail system in North America.
Its closure has hundreds of thousands now scrambling to find alternatives.
And this system, like mass transit all around the country, is already under constant strain.
Fans are heading to Citi Field in New York for tonight's game, but transit trouble is throwing them for a curveball.
Probably added about almost 50 minutes to our ride.
Long Island Railroad workers went on strike Saturday after failed contract negotiations with the state over wages and health care.
It's paralyzing a system that carries about 250,000 riders a day.
The strike is not what we wanted.
The railroad is part of a system already under stress with slow improvement.
New York City, with the nation's largest public transit network, updated its subway map last year, the first time in nearly 50 years.
Repair work on century-old train tunnels used by Amtrak and the New Jersey Transit won't be finished for another decade.
There are small signs of progress.
Los Angeles opened a nearly 4-mile subway expansion last week in its busiest neighborhood.
It took 65 years to build.
The United States compares unfavorably.
Data shows the US offers a fifth of public transit capacity provided by other comparable countries.
To world-class standard for transit, we would need to bring our spending up to 336 billion dollars by 2044.
The New York comptroller estimates this strike will cost the region 61 million dollars a day in lost economic activity.
And Jericka, the real impact will be felt on Monday when commuters go to work.
That's right.
The governor asking people to work from home if possible.
Ali Bauman, thank you.
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