Metro-North broke its record for on-time performance, officials said at the rail road’s monthly board meeting.
Trains were on time 97.8% percent of the time in 2006. Peter Cannito, president of Metro-North called it the “best ever.”
But, on the downside, there was a slight uptick in larcenies along the Metro-North last year. There were 398 larcenies in 2006 up from 362 in 2005 – an increase of nearly 10%.
James Sedore, chairman of the MTA’s Metro-North committee, said the number is “relatively low (because of) a tremendous amount of state trooper presence and dog presence because of high terror alerts (in 2005).”
When compared in 2004, 2003, and 2002, he said, the number is consistent. He added that many of larcenies were from sholifters at Grand Central, not aboard the trains or platforms.
-- Chuck Bennett
