Another Way The Suburbs Screw You

Your subway service is in danger of being cut because of the salaries of LIRR employees:

In fact, more than a quarter of the Long Island Rail Road’s 7,000 employees earned more than $100,000 last year . . .

Compensation varied widely within the authority’s various divisions. About 24 percent of Metro-North Railroad workers earned more than $100,000, along with 18 percent of bridge and tunnel workers, the data show. At the authority’s biggest sub-agency, New York City Transit, only 6 percent of workers earned six figures.

Then you have the Post, which tries to pin it on Q53 bus drivers who “still get paid” to show up for extra runs to Rockaway Beach during summer weekends, “rain or shine” (what do you want them to do, start a snow chain?).