What riles rail riders?: Cell-phone loudmouths take note: These are a few of their least favorite things.

Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY)

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Byline: Samuel Bruchey

May 31--In what has become her personal commuting nightmare, every time Alison Forte boards the Long Island Rail Road after work, she seems to encounter the same man. Hunched over his laptop, a cell phone jammed to his ear, he always does business on the train. And he does it loudly. It doesn't matter if Forte takes the 6:13 p.m. from Penn Station or the 6:39 p.m.; whether she rides the first car or the last. She hears his voice before she even finds a seat, talking about numbers, about profits and revenue, impervious to the...

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