Joseph M. Calisi
NEW YORK — Rail service in and through the New York City metropolitan area is resuming in stages after being shut down Monday by heavy snowfall.
New York’s MTA announced Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road commuter rail service were to resume Tuesday at 4 a.m., and service on the New York City Transit subway system’s outdoor lines was set to restart at 5 a.m. Long Island trains will run on a weekend schedule. NJ Transit operation on the Northeast Corridor and the light rail River Line are slated to resume about 9 a.m.; other commuter rail services will not resume before noon, with operation beginning as soon as conditions allow. Newark light rail will resume service at noon; Hudson-Bergen light rail was scheduled to resume at the start of the service day and operate on a weekend schedule. Check the NJ Transit website for more information.
Port Authority Trans-Hudson rail service is scheduled to resume at 11 a.m., NJ.com reports, and will operate on 15-minute headways. PATH service was also halted Monday.
Amtrak, which was shut down between New York Penn Station, Boston, and Albany on Monday afternoon, will resume Northeast Corridor operations on a reduced schedule for Acela Service, Northeast Regional, Keystone Service, and Empire Service trains. Check the Amtrak website or smartphone app, and Amtrak’s NECAlert and Amtrak Alert Twitter feeds for more information.
— Updated at 9:20 a.m. CST to include information on PATH service.
