Hey, no fair!
R train commuters railed Friday morning about their line’s unending delays — a day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a plan to fix the decrepit L train tunnel and avoid a shutdown.
“We were pretty upset. With all the delays, we were late to school all the time. It was frustrating, and now with the L train thing, it just seems unfair,” Nadine Rogers, 17, told The Post at the Jay-Street MetroTech in Brooklyn.
“If they could have found the money for the L train, they could have found the money for us,” she added.
Regular R train commuter Zahir Mohammad, 42, of Prospect Lefferts Gardens said he was “not happy about it.”
“We pay the same money in taxes, and we are not getting our money’s worth at all,” he said.
“It’s very unfair,” he continued. “Why can’t they find the money here too? The service is horrible. Horrible. I called the MTA for a delay report. It took four days. They should treat all the subway lines the same no matter who rides them.”
Naheema Walker, 16, said she felt “neglected.”
“The trains were awful. You’d just sit in the station and would miss the boat [to Staten Island] and there was nothing you could do. They just don’t care about the people on the R train as much,” she said.
Lisa Albert, 52, of Canarsie, who takes both the R and the L trains on her commute, said: “I’m not surprised at all. If you’re a New Yorker, you’re not surprised.”
She added: “It’s about the different type of people in the area. The people over here on the R train, they don’t have a voice. Over by Williamsburg — of course they found the money there.
“The R train has sucked. It’s never on time. There’s always, always a problem,” she said. “We definitely could use that funding.”
And Diandre Miller, 25, of Bensonhurst lamented Thursday’s “political move.”
“I feel like the people who take the L train, they listen more to them. They don’t really care what kind of service we deal with,” Miller said. “I take the R train all the time, and the service is awful.”




