FULL SHOW: LIRR strike comes to an end; Big news for the Rangers and Knicks.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now on the Voice of New York. |
| 0:04.0 | It's the Mark Simone show on 710 W.O.R. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, it's gonna be really hot today, 95, a heat wave day to day, and then tomorrow in the 90, and then the rest of the weekend, 60s. |
| 0:20.0 | All right. All right, it's Memorial Day weekend coming up. A lot to get to today. Corruption scandal with Donald Trump? Not really. It's an MSNBC generated fake one. We'll get to that in a few minutes. We'll get to the LIRR. We'll get to Iran, we'll get to Colbert, a whole lot more coming up. |
| 0:40.1 | The LIRR strike devastating for a lot of people caused nightmare commutes. |
| 0:45.9 | Yesterday, for people on Long Island trying to get into the city, you had to take a driver or take an Uber to get to the Queens place where we could take a shuttle bus. |
| 0:56.9 | They had a lot of shuttle buses, but the traffic was so brutal. |
| 1:01.5 | It is normally on the Long Island Railroad, but it was even more so, and it was so brutal, |
| 1:06.0 | it would take almost two hours just to get to Queens where you had to get on a train and then spend another |
| 1:11.8 | hour so it was two and a half hour three and a half hour commutes for a lot of people and |
| 1:16.0 | this morning's rush hour looked like the same thing now they've settled the strike but the trains |
| 1:21.8 | won't resume full service until this afternoon and remember it's uh kathyl, it's Gianno Lieber, the awful MTA commissioner, |
| 1:32.0 | so who knows if they'll be on time. But supposedly you'll have a normal commute home on the |
| 1:37.7 | Long Island Railroad today. They settled it. They will not disclose any terms. The governor |
| 1:44.0 | will not say anything. They will just say they're |
| 1:47.8 | going to pay a fair wage. Now, what does that mean? Why would they not reveal anything? Well, |
| 1:52.1 | they say they have to wait until the members vote. I don't know if that's a valid excuse. It could |
| 1:58.3 | be that the, uh, uh, |
| 2:01.0 | uh, the, uh, it was going to cost her a lot of votes. It just caved in on everything. We, we'll see when we get the numbers, but, uh, Kathy Hockel. Now the Long Island service, we'll be our own service will resume tomorrow at noon. With the full service time, expected in time for the evening rush hour |
| 2:19.0 | and yes, in time for the next |
| 2:20.7 | game. Yeah, I tomorrow at noon with the full service time expected in time for the evening rush hour and yes |
| 2:19.5 | in time for the next game yeah so she this is yesterday she means tonight tonight actually at noon |
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