Aug
29
Limited Metro-North service to resume today at 2 p.m.
ByMetro-North service on parts of the Hudson and Harlem Lines will be restored today starting at 2 p.m., the MTA announced a few minutes ago. Service along the New Haven line and north of Croton-Harmon and North White Plains remains suspended due to water-damaged substations, downed transmission poles and fallen trees. Service west of the Hudson River has been suspended as well.
For now, the trains that are running will operate on a Sunday schedule and will charge off-peak fares. As far as the schedule goes, the MTA informs us that trains will depart Croton-Harmon for Grand Central at 2 p.m. (local) and 2:34 p.m. (limited-stop express) and from North White Plains at 2:01 p.m. (limited-stop express) and 2:08 p.m. (local). Northbound trains will leave for Croton-Harmon at 2:20 p.m. and North White Plains at 2:25 p.m. (local) and 2:48 p.m. (express) before resuming a Sunday slate.
As far as everything else is concerned, the MTA says, “Metro-North will continue to restore as much service as possible once it is safe to do so.” When that will be is anyone’s guess.
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Looks from their comments like they’re now prioritizing the Upper Hudson and New Haven lines. Which makes sense to me. Port Jervis may well be out for a long time as it’s apparently still flooded and large sections are washed out.
One major problem across all lines is signal outages — and it seems that it’s quite hard to predict how long they will take to fix.
Perhaps substations and signal boxes should be elevated in future.
Lower NH line running, I’m typing this from the first train out of Greenwich.
any news on NJ Transit?
They’re still saying “suspended until further notice.”
which could literally mean September, haha.
Isn’t the Port Jervis Line in Norfolk Southern territory? If that’s the case, then MNRR can’t run anything over there until NS fixes and OKs the line, which could be a while.
metro north maintains the line for NS