{"id":1867,"date":"2006-12-07T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/this_buds_for_choo-choo.html"},"modified":"2006-12-07T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:43:50","slug":"this_buds_for_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/this_buds_for_c.html","title":{"rendered":"This Bud’s For Choo-Choo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, you don’t need<\/em> to drink on the train but isn’t it pretty sweet that you can? That may be changing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An MTA board member made a sobering recommendation yesterday: Ban booze sales by the LIRR to its commuters.<\/p>\n

Long Island Rail Road riders can buy a beer, a mixed drink or wine served in a plastic cup at railroad-staffed bar carts at Penn Station and at two other hubs.<\/p>\n

At $2 a beer, it’s a relative bargain in this town — and the LIRR does a brisk business from the bar carts located on train platforms.<\/p>\n

But at a Metropolitan Transportation Authority committee meeting yesterday, board member Mitchell Pally said the LIRR shouldn’t be in the booze business. As a state entity, it shouldn’t encourage alcohol consumption, partly because most passengers go on to drive home from LIRR parking lots, Pally said.<\/p>\n

Under Pally’s proposal, passengers could still buy a libation elsewhere and bring it on board.<\/p>\n

Many LIRR riders said they would miss the cheap and easy way to get drinks from the bar carts.<\/p>\n

“There’s good things and there’s bad things about it,” said John Gambino, 33, last night as he raced to catch the train to Babylon and grabbed a beer. “But after a long day with all the pressure, it really relaxes you.”<\/p>\n

Still, Gambino recalled how a pal of his had a few drinks on the train, then got the number of a young woman he was sitting next to — which his wife found in his coat pocket. “That caused problems,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This doesn’t apply to Hudson Valley- and Connecticut-bound Metro-North passengers, who apparently have more refined tastes:<\/p>\n

Metro-North stood firmly in support of its drinking policy.<\/p>\n

“We consider it an amenity for our customers who like a snack or a drink on their way home,” Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure, you don’t need to drink on the train but isn’t it pretty sweet that you can? That may be changing: An MTA board member made a sobering recommendation yesterday: Ban booze sales by the LIRR to its commuters. Long Island Rail Road riders can buy a beer, a mixed drink or wine served in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}