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By Dan Rattiner Week of July 22-28, 2010 Riders this week: 17,212 Rider miles this week: 155,380 DOWN IN THE TUBE Matthew Broderick was seen on the subway going from Sag Harbor to Bridgehampton reading Dan’s Papers. NEW SUBWAY TO FOXWOODS WILL OPEN NEXT MONTH, BUT IT WILL ONLY
BE ONE WAY As a result of a dispute explained by the commissioner in his message at the end of this newsletter, the new subway spur connecting Sag Harbor to Foxwoods, after two years of construction, will finally open next month, but will only allow people from the Hamptons to travel to Foxwoods and back, it will not allow Connecticuters to travel to the Hamptons and back to Foxwoods. For more
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details, we refer you to the Commissioner. HORSE SHOW REMINDER Please keep in mind that during the third week in August, the subway tubes will be used to allow horses to trot from the horse show barns set up in Westhampton to the Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton between the hours of 3 and 4 a.m. This is a service we have provided for them for the past few years. It is during the time the subway closes for maintenance (between 2 and 5 a.m.), and of course we will have extra maintenance people out there with the appropriate shovels and dustbins. All should be back to normal and ready to go by the time of the 5 a.m. re-openings. SHOCK ABSORBER PROGRAM CONTINUES We reported last week that the installation of all the new shock absorbers on the subway cars was finally, after three weeks, completed. As it has turned out, though, the completion we announced was not accurate. The reporter who was checking the subway cars only looked at the ones in the Montauk Yards. Meanwhile, the ones on the system— six of them rumbling about everywhere— still had the old shocks in them. So it will be another week before all are done. Still, counting all the remaining shocks it still appears. The supplier sent one less than the order and backordered the last. We just hope that when this job is finally really done next week, the one shock not replaced is not the same one not replaced when we last did this 10 years ago. That would be really bad. COMMISSIONER ASPINALL’S MESSAGE This Commissioner is outraged, as is everybody else on Long Island, by the apparent brazenness of the Pequot Tribe or the Mohegan Tribe in Connecticut, in spite of their denials, to be behind that damnable letter sent to the Bureau of Indian Affairs opposing the federal approval they offered to Long Island’s proud Shinnecock Nation 29 days ago—just one day before the temporary approval would have become permanent. This is a cheap shot, all based on the economics of Connecticut jobs, which might be lost to a Shinnecock Casino if one were to open somewhere on Long Island. As a result of this, I have ordered that nobody from Connecticut boarding there be allowed on our subway system crossing the sound to Long Island. ID’s will be checked. People will be thrown off the subway system. We are in solidarity to the Shinnecock peoples. This is our way of protesting. I have received a question from one of our riders here in the Hamptons about how Long Islanders might get back to the Hamptons from Foxwoods if they are without an ID. And what about those tourists from New York City taking the subway up there? We are working out the details. And we hope to have a special Hampton Subway residency card made up in time for the grand opening. The card will not allow you to take up residence on the subway of course.