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TIMESLEDGER | QNS.COM | APRIL 3-APRIL 9, 2020 17
BY PHILLIP ENG
At the LIRR, our team has
experience handling all types
of situations, from hurricanes to
power outages to managing massive
amounts of infrastructure
expansion.
Pandemic? Not so much. But
our workforce is rising to the
challenge.
As we adapt to this rapidly
changing public health crisis,
we cannot forget the thousands
of transportation workers across
the MTA’s agencies — the Long
Island Rail Road, Metro-North
Railroad, and NYC Transit —
who are working hard each day
to keep our system open and safe
for those who need to use it.
Our workforce is on the frontlines,
playing a key role in the
response to this pandemic. We
are making sure we are here for
the heroes of this crisis, which
include our own employees, as
well as the nurses, the doctors,
the police and first responders,
the grocery store, pharmacy and
transportation workers, and so
many others who are helping us
live.
Together with our labor
partners, we’re ensuring that
employees and customers alike
remain safe, as we maintain an
aggressive, ramped-up cleaning
schedule, disinfecting stations
across the system twice daily,
and getting to each one of our
train cars (more than 1,000) at
least once every 72 hours.
Our courageous workforce
is doing what public servants
do. They are not just doing a job,
they are doing a true service to
their fellow New Yorkers. I simply
can’t thank them enough.
They continue to make me
proud to be a part of this railroad
family. Every day, 24/7,
they demonstrate commitment
through their heroic efforts to
provide these essential services.
With that, I ask that you
please continue to practice good
hygiene. Social distancing is
key. We cannot express enough
the importance of flattening the
curve and what it will mean to
the recovery of New York, New
Yorkers, and the rest of our
country.
We are here for you, but we all
need to participate in preventing
the spread of this virus, while
our workforce gets the job done.
Stay well. We will get through
this, one day at a time, together.
Eng is president of the Long
Island Rail Road.
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