Alfonso Castillo
Transit Reporter at Newsday
Newsday transit reporter, typically found writing on, and riding on, the LIRR, especially those single seats on the old M3's. Email me: [email protected]
Articles
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2 days ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
The Long Island Rail Road has disciplined four employees who investigators said were routinely swiping each other out at time clocks to cover their co-workers leaving work early, according to a new report. The report issued Thursday from the office of Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General Daniel Cort involves three LIRR electricians and one car repairman who all worked out of the railroad’s Hillside Maintenance Complex in Queens.
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3 days ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
A group of Long Island Rail Road labor leaders who have held out for more favorable contracts than what other LIRR unions accepted said negotiations with management are at a standstill, and that without a resolution, a work stoppage similar to the one that recently shut down NJ Transit could be on the horizon.
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4 days ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
I’ve forgotten many details of the most serious car crash I was involved in. That’s not because I sustained some serious head injury, but rather because I didn’t. It was about 20 years ago. My wife and I were driving on Merrick Road near the Queens-Nassau border. Somehow, we were hit by another car, and I vividly remember the driver’s breath reeking of alcohol as he pleaded with me not to call the police. And I remember him taking off on foot when I did.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
Suffolk’s police force is the latest to join the fight against "ghost vehicles" attempting to hide from automated cameras, according to the MTA.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Alfonso Castillo
Going into Newsday’s Dangerous Roads town hall event last week, I was prepared for the night to be something of a downer. Surrounded by people closely touched by Long Island’s worsening car crash epidemic, I expected the mood in Newsday’s Studio 2 to be solemn. Bitter. Even hopeless. It was none of those things.
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