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Posted 24 July 2017 - 07:45 PM

The New York Times,​ 7/21/17:

You Have a Bad Commute? Try Four Hours and Three Trains

 

 

Trying to get to New York from New Jersey and Long Island this summer has become an unpleasant slog with emergency repair work at Pennsylvania Station disrupting the commutes of thousands of riders.

 

But there are a small number of seasoned commuters who have acclimated to the changes without many complaints — after all, they have challenging trips even under the best of circumstances because they have to travel between Long Island and New Jersey almost every weekday.

 

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Christina Rendon, 47, a payroll manager who also lives on Long Island and works in New Jersey, has managed to keep her four-hour daily commute largely intact. But to do so she has to take three different trains on each of her trips: a Long Island Rail Road train to Manhattan, a New Jersey Transit train to Newark Broad Street Station and a different New Jersey Transit train to Summit, N.J., where she works.

 

She has commuted to New Jersey for the past 12 years, since her company moved there from Manhattan.

 

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