Articles about “MetroNorth”
Commuters Still Angry At New Haven Line Cuts
Flickr user springhudson The MTA has released more information on the new cuts to service on the New Haven Metro-North line. MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan tells us the new schedules are up on the Metro-North website,...
Is Six Minutes Late "On Time"? The MTA Thinks So
greyrain's Flickr According to the MTA (and the commuter railroad industry), a train that arrives within five minutes and 59 seconds of its scheduled arrival time is still not late. But an official advisory council says...
MTA "Operating Near Normal" During Ice Storm
View of tracks from insider deicer car (MTA) The MTA says it's "operating near normal, regularly scheduled service across the commuter rail, subway and bus regional transportation network" except for the Long Island Rail Road is...
MTA Gives Evening Commute Update: We're Working Hard!
The MTA had a challenging morning, after basically a foot of snow fell, forcing the agency to suspend bus service citywide, suspend some subway lines, and make adjustments to the LIRR and Metro-North trains. Now the MTA gives an update for this evening's rush hour commute, "We're working hard to restore full service in the aftermath of a storm that dumped nineteen inches of snow on New York City and more than a foot of snow in other parts of the region. While we have restored service across the entire system, recovery efforts are ongoing and customers may still experience some delays and cancellations..."
MTA UPDATE: Some Bus Service Restored, All Subway Lines Running
Thanks to the big snow accumulation overnight (according to NY1, "Central Park received 11" of snow overnight, in addition to the four inches that fell on Wednesday"), the MTA has suspended all NYC Transit and MTA bus service to avoid scenes like ones during the blizzard. Some subway service was suspended too, though all lines have been restored. Update: Now, as of 9:30 a.m., the MTA has restored limited services to some bus lines (but if you're in the Bronx, you're out of luck). Here's what the transit agency says about NYC Transit bus and subway, plus Metro-North and LIRR:
Video: Open Door On Metro-North Train Headed To Grand Central
Oh, MTA: On the same day the transit agency announced that crippling debt could mean another round of fare hikes, a Metro-North rider shot video of an open door on a crowded train that barrels from the 125th Street stop towards Grand Central. Here's what the rider wrote on YouTube, "Open door on MetroNorth from Harlem/125th to about midway within the tunnel to Grand Central. No warning lights, no conductors nearby. Door finally closed on it's own with a little passenger assistance. Notice the packed vestibule, probably 75 people standing from Stanford to GC. And the trains were running 45 minutes late." Obviously this is why riders need beer cars.
Pol Seeks To Ban Smoking On Metro-North, LIRR Platforms
mikehutch711's flickr We live in a city where people get punched for smoking on a bus, where smoking is banned on city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas. Secondhand smoke literally causes neighbors to turn on each...
Subway, Buses Okay, LIRR Limping Along
John Del Signore/Gothamist In a press release sent out earlier this morning, the NYC Transit announced that "all services are operating, with service changes in some cases. Subway and bus service is expected to operate normally...
Mass Transit Systems Claim To Be "Near Normal"
Photograph by missapril1956 on Flickr After two days of blizzard-induced commuting problems across the region, the mass transit agencies say that their service is near normal. (Whatever normal is!) The MTA says that bus and subway...
Snowball In Hell: Tales Of Today's Mass Transit Commute
Today's commute has been terrible, as the various mass transit systems dig their way out from under the snow. A reader sent us pictures of the seen at the PATH's Grove Street station (above) and here's a...
Even MTA Urges Mass Transit Users To Stay At Home
Photograph by Daeman Di Stefano The fast-moving blizzard that dumped chaotic amounts of snow onto the NYC region has also shut down or delayed mass transit. The Long Island Rail Road was shut down (guess these...
Really: Metro-North Applauded For One Day Of On-Time Trains
Photo via manyhighways' flickr Should we really be patting Metro-North on the caboose for running their trains on time? According to the NY Post, the railroad (allegedly!) had a 100 percent on-time record on Tuesday, with...
Kid Sues MTA For Millions After He Was Beaten in Harlem
Castiglione (via NYP). A 20-year-old Westchester kid is suing the MTA for $7 million because he was was mugged in Harlem. MTA cops left the college sophomore on the streets late at night after dropping charges...
Nooooo! LIRR, Metro-North Raise Booze Prices
We've put up with service cuts. We've put up with fare hikes. We've put up with the knowledge that sometimes there won't be station agents looking out for us late at night, and that on the...
MTA Holds Terror Drill At Grand Central Terminal
Yesterday morning, the MTA's Metro-North Railroad, along with other agencies, held an "emergency preparedness exercise" at Grand Central Terminal. The annual exercise involved 30 "victims," including two who needed to be transported to hospitals, which resulted in...
LIRR Riders More Boozy Than Wine-Swilling Metro-North Crowd
Via Barcar.com In case you missed this interesting little article, the Times crunched the numbers on beverage sales along the Long Island Railroad and Metro-North lines, comparing the drinking preferences between the two groups of commuters....
Metro-North Supervisor Was Slacker King
A slacker track foreman at Metro North's massive Croton-Harmon yard was arrested yesterday on felony grand larceny charges after investigators determined that he was regularly clocking in and then going back home. The Daily News reports...
UPDATE: Metro-North Trains Back After Fire At Harlem River Bridge
Notify NYC Tweets, "All Metro-North train service is suspended at this time due to a fire at the Harlem River Bridge." We hear the fire is under the bridge at Harlem River Drive and 132nd Street. NY1...
Child Rapist Busted For Impersonating Subway Supervisor
Willie Perez, 42, had already been convicted for sodomizing a 15-year-old boy when he somehow landed a job cleaning trains on the Metro-North trains. But after being busted for allegedly impersonating a subway supervisor, the agency...
Suspicious Package Suspends Metro-North's Hudson Line
Move over, suffering LIRR riders: The Metro-North's Hudson Line is suspended now! The Journal News reports, "A suspicious package left on the train tracks in Irvington this morning has suspended all Hudson Line service temporarily and prompted...
Is MetroNorth Going Bi-Level?
Ooooh, how European. Metro-North Railroad is considering buying double-decker coaches for its Harlem and Hudson lines, according to the New York Times. The purchase would bring less crowded cars to the commuter lines, adding enough space...
There's Just No Pleasing the Metro-North Bar Car Crowd
There was considerable panic among Metro-North commuters earlier this year, when the MTA seemed poised to retire its last remaining bar cars, a relic of the New Haven line. At the time, Paul Hornung, a financial...
MTA's Runaway Overtime Train
An audit by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that not only have the MTA's overtime payments ballooned by 26% from 2005 to be $560 million last year, but, in a sampling, 77% of the time supervisors...
Rush Hour Commuter Trains Always Late
Flickr user Triborough Surprise: there's a big difference between the kind of efficiency commuter rails are reporting and the delays commuters are experiencing. Though New Jersey Transit and Metro North Rail Road claim almost 96% of...
Man Struck In The Head By Train At Metro-North Station
A 19-year-old man from Ohio is in critical condition after a freight train on Metro-North tracks hit him at the Ossining station. According to the AP, "Metro-North said Christopher Newman was sitting on the train platform...
Metro North Service Normal After Saturday Disruption
Photograph via Alecia Wesner's Twitter Yesterday, service on Metro North's New Haven line was suspended, due to wire problems. The result? Thousands of people were stranded, the NY Times reports: "The problems, which began about 4:30...
MTA Salaries (Like $239,148 For A Conductor) Raise Ire
Photograph by Idle Type on Flickr On Wednesday, the Empire Center for New York State Policy released payroll data showing over 8,000 MTA employees made over $100,000, including overtime and extra pay, and an overall average...
Metro North Train Fatally Hits Person In The Bronx
Last night, a Metro North train struck and killed a person just south of the Marble Hill station at 225th Street in the Bronx. Metro North spokesman Dan Brucker tells us that at 10:41 p.m. a...
MTA Plans More Cuts, From Train Cars To Workers
Photograph by urzzz on Flickr A judge may have temporarily blocked 475 station agents from being laid off but the MTA is continuing with ways to close its big budget shortfall. And that includes eliminating 1,000...
Metro-North Bar Cars Saved?
There was considerable alarm last week when it was reported that the last train line in the nation to offer bar car service during rush hour would become history. Metro-North is replacing its 1970s-era train cars...