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Posted 14 March 2017 - 10:50 AM

From MTA website:

 

 

Weather Advisory

 

Commuters traveling on New York City Transit, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North are encouraged to stay home, if possible, as additional service changes are expected. New Yorkers should exercise caution, avoid unnecessary travel and pay close attention to winter storm advisories as the day progresses.

In order to enhance our communications with customers, MTA has taken steps to ensure its communications systems function well during any type of emergency.  The current website design allows for the quick posting of service information and includes a special weather page that becomes the mta.info homepage during weather-related events affecting operations.  Customers are urged to monitor this website regularly as well as television and radio reports for service updates.

MTA customers can get up-to-the-minute service updates through the service status box on the alert home page. Customers can also sign up for service email and text alerts by visiting Useful Links on the alert home page.

SUBWAYS

Express service has been suspended. Starting at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, above-ground subway service will be suspended. Please check the Underground Service Map for more details.

Snow-fighting equipment for subways will include more than 2,000 snow melting devices staged along the tracks at crucial track switches and along other infrastructure, including: 1,500 third rail heaters; 80 trains with scraper shoes, which are used on in-service trains to scrape ice off the third rail as a train moves along the tracks; 10 snow throwers, which have precise directional snow throwing equipment with rotating brushes that throw snow up to 300 feet from the track and can remove up to 3,000 tons of snow an hour; 7 de-icer train cars, which are trains equipped with ice scraping shoes that scrape off ice that has accumulated on the third rail. They also use pumping equipment to dispense a stream of nontoxic, biodegradable de-icing fluid to prevent ice buildup on the third rail. If ice is permitted to build up, subway car power pickup equipment will not be able to draw electric current from the third rail and the train will stop; 4 track jet blowers, which use a jet engine to remove accumulated snow from the roadbed. This piece of equipment is used primarily to keep the yards clear.

All previously planned subway maintenance, rehabilitation and construction projects have been canceled through Tuesday afternoon. 

BUSES
 

Local and express bus service is running but limited service has been suspended.

Bus operations has more than 90 pieces of snow-fighting equipment to supplement the work of municipal agencies. All local buses in service will have tires chained.

LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD

LIRR is offering a normal schedule this morning, but customers should expect service cancellations to happen as conditions worsen. 

LIRR is deploying 1,500 storm fighting personnel and up to 362 snowblowers, 18 truck plows, 22 front-end loaders and 7 rail-bound jets. They have 800,000 pounds of salt available to assist in keeping platforms and pathways clean

Click here to read more about LIRR's extensive winter storm preparation procedures http://web.mta.info/...nterweather.htm

Long Island Railroad: https://twitter.com/LIRR

METRO-NORTH RAILROAD
 

Winter Storm Update: East of Hudson Service Suspended at Noon

 

Metro-North will suspend train service by noon due to the anticipated impact of the blizzard on our territory and low ridership during the AM peak. 

 

Last trains will depart their originating terminals starting at 9:30 AM and arrive in Grand Central and at their final outlying destinations by noon. No trains will operate after that time until further notice.

Last Hudson Line trains
 

Inbound: 10 AM from Croton-Harmon;  <span style="font-size: 13px;>Train service was suspended South from Poughkeepsie to Croton Harmon after the 7:50 AM train from Poughkeepsie

Outbound: 9:43 AM to Poughkeepsie; 10:21 AM to Croton-Harmon

Last Harlem Line trains

Inbound: 10:12 AM from Southeast; 10:06 AM from North White Plains

Outbound: 9:52 AM to Southeast; 10:25 AM to North White Plains

Last New Haven Line trains

Inbound: 9:46 AM from New Haven; 10:02 AM from Stamford

Outbound: 10:02 to New Haven; 10:36 AM to Stamford

This suspension is necessary to ensure the safety of our customers and to enable us to resume service once the worst of the blizzard passes.

 

West-of-Hudson service is currently operating on a weekend schedule. Customers should check www.njtransit.com for details on Port Jervis/Pascack Valley Line service.

Please continue to check http://alert.mta.info/ for updates and to listen to local news for updates as to when Metro-North will be able to resume service.

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Posted 14 March 2017 - 10:57 AM

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Posted 14 March 2017 - 08:05 PM

Update for Tuesday evening & Wednesday morning:

 

 

Weather Advisory

 

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that MTA above-ground subway and limited Metro-North service will be restored on Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. At this time, Staten Island Railway service has been fully restored and express subway service will begin Wednesday by 7 a.m. or earlier on all lines.

“As the severity of weather conditions decrease, we are restoring MTA above-ground subway and limited Metro North service so New Yorkers can resume their routines,” Governor Cuomo said. “The state is responding quickly to changing weather conditions, and we encourage New Yorkers to stay home where possible and continue exercising caution as we ride out the storm.”

MTA customers can get up-to-the-minute service updates through the service status box on this page. Customers can also sign up for service email and text alerts by visiting Useful Links on the left side of the page.

SUBWAYS

Express service has been suspended. Above-ground subway service has been suspended starting at 4 a.m. today. Please check the Underground Service Map in the next column for more details.

 

All previously planned subway maintenance, rehabilitation and construction projects have been canceled through Tuesday afternoon. 

Snow-fighting equipment for subways will include more than 2,000 snow melting devices staged along the tracks at crucial track switches and along other infrastructure, including: 1,500 third rail heaters; 80 trains with scraper shoes, which are used on in-service trains to scrape ice off the third rail as a train moves along the tracks; 10 snow throwers, which have precise directional snow throwing equipment with rotating brushes that throw snow up to 300 feet from the track and can remove up to 3,000 tons of snow an hour; 7 de-icer train cars, which are trains equipped with ice scraping shoes that scrape off ice that has accumulated on the third rail. They also use pumping equipment to dispense a stream of nontoxic, biodegradable de-icing fluid to prevent ice buildup on the third rail. If ice is permitted to build up, subway car power pickup equipment will not be able to draw electric current from the third rail and the train will stop; 4 track jet blowers, which use a jet engine to remove accumulated snow from the roadbed. This piece of equipment is used primarily to keep the yards clear.

BUSES
 

Local and express bus service is running but limited service has been suspended.

 

New York City bus service will begin running normally on Wednesday at 5 a.m.

Bus operations has more than 90 pieces of snow-fighting equipment to supplement the work of municipal agencies. All local buses in service will have tires chained.

LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD

The Long Island Rail Road continues to operate a normal schedule with scattered delays. 

Click here to read more about LIRR's extensive winter storm preparation procedures http://web.mta.info/...nterweather.htm

Long Island Rail Road: https://twitter.com/LIRR

LIRR Schedules Click here

METRO-NORTH RAILROAD
 

Limited Tuesday Evening Service Resumes, Modified AM Peak for Wednesday
 
Metro-North will provide hourly service from approximately 6 PM through 11 PM on all three lines for tonight, Tuesday, March 14.

 

Customers should expect crowded conditions and train delays.

 

Metro-North will resume limited hourly service starting at 6 p.m. tonight until 11 p.m. on the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven Lines, although there will be no branch service. The Hudson branch will run to Croton-Harmon only; the Harlem line runs to North White Plains; and the New Haven line ends at Union Station tonight. Full service will resume Wednesday morning per the regular weekday schedule and all customers will be served within five minutes of their normal departure time. 

 

Because of heavy snowfall of over two feet on the upper portions of these lines:

 

On the New Haven Line service will operate to/from New Haven.

 

On the Hudson Line

 

First trains operate:

Inbound 6 PM from Croton-Harmon

Outbound 6:20 PM to Croton-Harmon

Last trains operate:

Inbound 11:00 PM from Croton-Harmon

Outbound 11:20 PM to Croton-Harmon

On the Harlem Line First trains operate:

Inbound 6:06 PM from North White Plains

Outbound 6:24 PM to North White Plains

Last trains operate:

Inbound 11:06 PM from North White Plains

Outbound 11:24 PM to North White Plains

On the New Haven Line First trains operate:

Inbound 6:46 PM all stops local from New Haven

Outbound 6:36 PM All stops local to New Haven

Last trains operate:

Inbound 10:45 PM (all stops local from New Haven)

Outbound 11:37 PM (all stops local to New Haven)

 

Customers can use our interactive schedules page at http://as0.mta.info/.../sched_form.cfmfor train times or use the Train Time App.

 

There will be no Branch Line Service provided tonight. (Wassaic to Southeast, Danbury to South Norwalk, New Canaan to Stamford, Waterbury to Bridgeport.)

 

The Haverstraw-Ossining and Newburgh-Beacon ferries and the Hudson Rail Link will not operate tonight.

 

Please continue to check http://alert.mta.info/and to listen to local news for updates.

 

West-of-Hudson customers should check www.njtransit.com for details on Port Jervis/Pascack Valley Line service. For Wednesday’s (March 15th) AM Peak, Metro-North will operate a modified weekday schedule that will serve all customers with some combined and cancelled trains.

 

Customers can use our interactive schedules page at http://as0.mta.info/.../sched_form.cfmfor train times or use the Train Time App.

 

Please continue to check here and to listen to local news for updates as to when Metro-North will be able to resume service.



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Posted 15 March 2017 - 11:42 AM

New York Post, 3/14:
 

Metro-North’s abrupt shutdown leaves riders stranded in city

 

 

Metro-North commuters slammed the railroad on Tuesday for abruptly cancelling all service after noon — even though the blizzard had fizzled and morning trains had already carried them into the city, leaving many stranded in the Big Apple.

 

The railroad had sent out a tweet at 5:45 a.m. saying they would be running on a Sunday schedule — but followed that up shortly after 9 a.m. with another bringing the bad news.

 

“The last Metro-North trains will depart their originating terminals today between 9:30 and 10:30 AM,” the railroad tweeted, though Blizzard Stella had already been downgraded by then in areas served by the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines.

 

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Posted 15 March 2017 - 01:57 PM

Wednesday update:
 

 


 

 

Post-Storm Service Resumes on Wednesday





 

 


March 14th, 2017



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Employees clear snow from the LIRR station with snow thrower.


Following the conclusion of Winter Storm Stella, the MTA anticipates a near normal morning rush hour across most services on Wednesday, March 15. 

MT

A customers can get up-to-the-minute service updates through the service status box on this page. Customers are encouraged to sign up for custom service email and text alerts by visiting http://www.MyMTAAlerts.com/

 

Service details follow.

SUBWAYS

 

Express service is expected to resume by 7 a.m. on Wednesday. Above-ground subway service was restored on Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. 

 

BUSES

New York City bus service will begin running normally on Wednesday at 5 a.m.

LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD

The Long Island Rail Road expects to continue to operate a normal schedule throughout the day on Wednesday.

 

METRO-NORTH RAILROAD

For Wednesday's AM Peak, Metro-North will operate a modified weekday schedule that will serve all customers with some combined and canceled trains. 
 
Customers can use our interactive schedules page at http://as0.mta.info/.../sched_form.cfm for train times or use the Train Time App. 
 
Customers should expect crowded conditions and train delays.

 

 


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