LIRR riders say their daily commutes are already crowded and stressful, and they fear the project will make things worse. "When they do these things, there's always an issue," Mike Stella said.

Amtrak says the scope of work is too large to use the L train method. To those of us on the LIRR Commuter Council, that thinking deserves another, closer look. After all, it’s hard to give ...