Half a Mil to Tell You What You Already Know: There's Traffic


Your tax dollars (specifically, 450,000 of them) are at work powering a sign on the Northern State Parkway that can tell you how long it'll take you to get to the Sag or Route 111 from Exit 40. At first, the sign wasn't even working properly. On the bright side, the design of the sign shows that someone's planned ahead: there's room for a third digit.

Attention, Riders: Watch the Glitch!


The LIRR said that the glitch is also responsible for late trains, dirty trains, broken trains, and people falling through the gap.

On an unrelated note, the LIRR also announced that it no longer has that "budget windfall" it announced the day before the glitch was discovered.