Commuters bracing for impact of potential LIRR strike

For many commuters, there just aren't any viable alternatives if there is an LIRR strike.

More than 300,000 commuters go into and out of Manhattan every day, and a strike could have a profound impact.

One Long Island resident takes not one, but two LIRR trains, and a taxi every day to get to work. For him, a strike would be disastrous.

Jonas Elouidor of Bay Shore begins his day bright and early at 6 a.m. to get to his job as a chaffeur.

He hops on a train from Brentwood to Hicksville and then another train from Hicksville to Westbury.

"Definitely I'm worried about it because I have no other way to get to work as it is, so for the next few days if the strike is going to happen," said Elouidor.

Once he arrives at the Westbury station it's about a five minute cab ride.

Elouidor always has his eye on the clock. "I'd rather be early than late," he says.

They can be long days for him as it is.

He along with thousands of other people are trying to figure out how early they're going to have to get up to get to work on time if this strike goes through.

"Make it a very long day so I don't get home until 10:30 at night. but hey that's what it is. you have to get to work," said Elouidor.

And on Tuesday he does it with ease. All smiles as he pulls up to his job at 8 a.m., an hour early as he planned.

Elouidor says he's enjoying it while it lasts.