Folks,
As this By Line is going On Line (,,In Print'' as it were), Tens of Thousands of Commuters in New York are stuck in New York's Main Travel Station. The Reason, a Power Outage. This, on Thanksgiving Eve. Imagine the Main Waiting Room (See Illustration below) overflowing with People (People who are trying to get into the Station are not being allowed to do so. They are being kept outside).
Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, New York
The Reason given: a Power Outage by Con Edison, which is the Local Power Company in New York. The People affected by this are by and large the Working Class People in New York who depend on Public Transportation and who live, also by and large, in Long Island (Long Island Rail Road, ,,LIRR'' Trains and Amtrak Trains have been affected by this but Amtrak states it hopes to have the Power back in ,,90 Minutes.'' More realistically, the LIRR states that it has suspended the service indefinitely).
We say the Working Class People because all of the busy Executives working on Wall Street and Corporate Upper Floors have long left for home in Private Limousines (called ,,Livery'' in New York), or, if they live nearby, in Mahattan's toney Districts, by Taxi.
We further ask the Question, coming on the Heels of the Hurricane Sandy Disaster, is this any Way to run a Railroad? Of course, Con Edison is likely to blame for such a horrible Event to occur on Thanksgiving Eve. However, Responsibility is when Blame is allowed to go around, not only to Amtrak and the LIRR, which should be asking themselves, ,,Is this any Way to run a Railroad?'' but also to the New York City and other supervisory Officials, starting with Mayor Bloomberg, who should feel a greater Sense of Responsibility towards the Working Class People of New York, who shoulder the Burden of creating Wealth in this, one of the most chaotic Cities in the World.
Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, New York, before World War II, once the Greatest Railroad Station in the World
