Daily Archives: January 29, 2007

A few days ago, a Sag Hampton resident I’ve known for years said to me, “The Long Island Railroad should be running shuttle trains in the Hamptons. There should be a train at least every half hour.” I started to tell him about Five Towns Rural Transit (5TRT) and the East End Transportation Council (EETC), and the $400,000 grant from the State that those organizations got to study that very situation, but he interrupted me. “Study? What a waste of money. Why doesn’t the railroad do it? It’d be a great thing, and they’d get a lot more people using the trains out here that way.” …
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