{"id":804718,"date":"2026-05-18T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804718\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:59:01","slug":"commuters-brace-for-chaos-amid-long-island-rail-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804718\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters Brace for Chaos Amid Long Island Rail Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Commuters Brace for Chaos Amid Long Island Rail Strike<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Commuters Brace for Chaos Amid Long Island Rail StrikePassengers who take the Long Island Rail Road braced for disruptions to their Monday commute after workers walked off the job during failed contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"css-p98d0w\">\n<dt class=\"css-xx7kwh\"\/>\n<dd class=\"css-4gvq6l\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cWhen we fight, we win.\u201d \u201cWe all know that the railroad is the lifeblood of Long Island. Without it, life as we know it is simply not possible. The bottom line is no one wins in a strike. Everyone is hurt.\u201d \u201cYeah, I have to do something to get to my house, you know. I live in Queens, Ozone Park, so I\u2019m going to try to get the bus here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/18vid-lirr-strike-cover-fvlt-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Passengers who take the Long Island Rail Road braced for disruptions to their Monday commute after workers walked off the job during failed contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>By Julie Yoon<\/p>\n<p>May 18, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Commuters Brace for Chaos Amid Long Island Rail Strike transcript Back transcript Commuters Brace for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":804719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,56279,10209,9904,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,102111,228569,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-804718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-commuting","tag-lirr","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-railroads","tag-strikes-labor","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116594762116987580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}