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#11 AlanB

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 11:51 AM

Latest press conference just ended says that limited LIRR & MN service will resume as of 2 PM as of today. Some subway service will resume tomorrow in Brooklyn, with bus bridges to Manhattan. Other subway lines on the northern end of Manhattan are also expected to resume some service, but in all cases no trains will run south of 34th Street due in large part to no commercial power for lights in stations. Three of the seven flooded tunnels under the East River have been pumped dry and crews are working to restore signals and other equipment in the tunnels.
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Posted 31 October 2012 - 12:24 PM

Here's the schedule for Metro North's Harlem line, which appears to be the only line that will operate today as of 2PM. And it's only the lower Harlem line from White Plains south.
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Posted 31 October 2012 - 12:25 PM

And here is the update for Metro North:

Metro-North Resumes Hourly Service on the Lower Harlem at 2 PMAs of 2 PM, Metro-North will be able to restore limited service on its Harlem Line between North White Plains and Grand Central Terminal. The service will operate every hour. See the special schedule. Today, off-peak fares will be in effect.

All Metro-North customers should hold onto their October monthly and weekly tickets; they will be valid for travel through Monday, November 5.

Grand Central Terminal will reopen to the public by 2 PM as well.

Before service can be restored to other areas of the railroad, there are a number of challenges that must be addressed.

The right-of-way on the Upper Harlem Line between North White Plains and Wassaic, has been cleared of trees. Two critical substations near Bedford Hills and Katonah were flooded and are not operating. We are working with the power supplier, New York State Electric and Gas Company, to get these critical substations on line as soon as possible.

Damage on the New Haven Line between Stamford and New Haven remains significant. There is significant damage on 2 of the four tracks because of the track of the storm. Numerous trees have to be removed and catenary and signal wire has to be rehung all along the route. All the moveable bridges had been submerged during the storm; they must be fully inspected and repairs made. Additionally, there is significant track damage in the area of Fairfield. Service also remains suspended on all 3 Branch Lines, as crews still have a tremendous amount of work to do removing trees and restoring power in those areas as well.

The Port Jervis and Pascack Valley Lines are operated by NJ TRANSIT. Service on those two lines remains suspended by NJT continues to work toward service restoration. See www.njtransit.com for updates.

The Hudson Line has also been hard hit. It will remain out of service due to extensive storm-related damage from flooding, fallen trees and power outages.

Major issues include:

Water-damaged substations on the Hudson Line that cannot provide third rail power, including one that provides power to Metro-North's largest yard and shop at Croton-Harmon;
Washouts that have undermined the track structure so greatly it is unsafe to operate trains across those sections; One section alone between Croton-Harmon and Cortlandt will require up to 8 rail cars of ballast stone to repair;
Third rail damage in several areas caused by fallen trees;
Debris along the right of way that still needs to be cleared.
The railroad’s employees will continue to work hard to restore service for all customers as quickly and safely as possible, but the extent of the damage requires us to do it incrementally.

Until full service is restored to all lines, customers should expect some delays and crowding on trains. Continue to check www.mta.info/mnr , listen to news media reports and listen for announcements at stations and onboard trains. Customers should also use caution when traveling to and from train stations


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Posted 31 October 2012 - 12:27 PM

Nothing major yet up on the MTA site for subways, but here is the current blurb on the home site:

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Announces Restoration of Limited Commuter Railroad and Subway ServiceGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that beginning this afternoon, both Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad will begin to provide limited service on part of their respective networks. The Governor also announced that beginning Thursday morning, there will be limited subway service on several routes, supplemented by a bus shuttle between Downtown Brooklyn and Midtown. There will be no subway service between 34th St in Midtown and Downtown Brooklyn. Earlier today, Local, Limited-Stop and Express Bus service began operating as close to a normal weekday schedule as possible. As was the case yesterday, bus service will operate on a fare-free basis today. Access-A-Ride also began limited service today, as well as accepting reservations for travel after Noon tomorrow.

All of the bridges operated by MTA Bridges & Tunnels are open to traffic. The Hugh L. Carey and Queens Midtown Tunnels remain closed after suffering extensive flooding.

While both limited rail and subway service is being restored on a line by line and branch by branch basis, the work to restore full service on the commuter rail and subway network is ongoing. Thousands of MTA workers are still out across the entire 5,000 square mile MTA service region inspecting and repairing the damage caused the massively destructive storm of historic proportions. Metro-North Railroad is working to regain electric power and clear debris from on the Hudson Line and east to New Haven on the New Haven Line. The Long Island Rail Road continues to remove debris and make repairs to its West Side Yard and clear flooding in two East River tunnels. Both railroads spent the better part of Tuesday removing downed power lines and trees along the right of way, in addition to removing mud and other debris that washed up on to the tracks, including pleasure boats that washed ashore near the Ossining Station on the Hudson Line and the Island Park Station on the Long Beach branch.

Bridges and Tunnels suffered major damage with flooding of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel from end to end and the Queens Midtown Tunnel also took on water. Damage is extremely heavy in downtown Manhattan where several subway lines converge. The South Ferry station was filled track to ceiling with water as were several of the subway tunnels. Water remediation work is continuing in several underwater tunnels.

It is still too early to say how long it will take to restore the system to full service. This is will be an exhaustive, time-consuming process with one goal: to restore safe and efficient service to 8.5 million daily MTA customers. It must be noted, however, that this process could have taken much longer had we not taken the pre-emptive measure of suspending all service to safeguard our equipment and prepare facilities to the best of our ability.

New York City TransitGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that beginning this afternoon, both Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad will begin to provide limited service on part of their respective networks. The Governor also announced that beginning Thursday morning, there will be limited subway service on several routes, supplemented by a bus shuttle between Downtown Brooklyn and Midtown. There will be no subway service between 34th St in Midtown and Downtown Brooklyn. Earlier today, Local, Limited-Stop and Express Bus service began operating as close to a normal weekday schedule as possible. As was the case yesterday, bus service will operate on a fare-free basis today. Access-A-Ride also began limited service today, as well as accepting reservations for travel after Noon tomorrow.


Nothing official yet, and therefore no actual line numbers, but reports suggest that 14 of the subway lines will resume some sort of service tomorrow.
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Posted 31 October 2012 - 12:47 PM

Seems like the LIRR's idea of restoring service is this:

Starting at 2PM today, Wednesday, October 31, LIRR will begin operating hourly train service between Jamaica and Atlantic Terminal/Brooklyn. Beginning tomorrow, customers will be able to connect to shuttle buses from Barclays Center to Manhattan. Off-peak fares will be in effect on LIRR trains until full service is restored and no onboard penalty fees will be charged. Monitor news reports or visit www.mta.info for more info as it becomes available.


I see nothing that indicates that there is any service east of Jamaica, so basically they're running a subway like service between Jamaica & Brooklyn.
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Posted 31 October 2012 - 01:28 PM

I stress that this is NOT official and does not come direct from the MTA, but initial reports seem to indicate that the following subway lines will have at least some partial service in the morning: 1, 2, 4/5, 6, Shuttle, A, D, F, J, L, M, N, R, all with partial service. Not running at all will be: 3, 7, B, C, E, G, Q. Reports indicate that three of the seven flooded tunnels have been pumped clean. Those tunnels carry the 4/5 and the F lines. Not sure if that's the lower Rutgers Street tunnel for the F train or the upper 63rd Street Tunnel, or both. The 4/5 tunnel would be the Joralemon Street tunnel. Based upon that, I have to think that the MTA is glad that they built a new South Ferry Station, as if they were still using the old station that would probably have lead to far more severe flooding in the Joralemon Street tunnel.
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Posted 31 October 2012 - 01:35 PM

Here's the update from the LIRR:

LIRR Brooklyn Service Restored at 2 PM TodayStarting at 2 PM today, Wednesday, October 31, LIRR will begin operating hourly train service between Jamaica and Atlantic Terminal/Brooklyn. Beginning tomorrow, customers will be able to connect to shuttle buses from Barclays Center to Manhattan. Off-peak fares will be in effect on LIRR trains until full service is restored and no onboard penalty fees will be charged. Monitor news reports or visit www.mta.info for more info as it becomes available.

In conducting the assessment of the LIRR’s eleven branches, the LIRR has removed over 140 trees throughout the system with many more yet to be removed. The Port Washington and Oyster Bay branches and the Port Jefferson Branch east of Huntington had some of the heavier concentration of downed trees so far. Some of the fallen trees encountered on the Oyster Bay and Port Jefferson Branches are as large as 6 feet in circumference.

On the Babylon Branch in the vicinity of Amityville, three 90-foot high-tension utility poles snapped and are leaning over the tracks. There are also downed power lines in some areas.

Flooding from the extreme high-tides and the storm surge from the Hudson River flooded the LIRR’s West Side Train Storage Yard in Manhattan. The flood waters from the Hudson River washed out areas of ballast (rock) on some storage tracks in the yard and four signal units were affected – two were knocked out of place and two required replacement. Prior to the storm, the LIRR removed about 300 train cars from the yard before deploying a specially-designed water dam between the West Side Yard and the tracks leading to Penn Station to help prevent Hudson River flood waters from reaching Penn Station tracks and the East River Tunnels. The dam served its purpose, however the storm surge was so great that it over-rode the dam and flooded Amtrak’s North River tunnels at that location.

The LIRR has pumped out high water conditions at a number of locations including Long Island City, Hunterspoint Avenue and Borden Avenue in Queens; as well as from the track on the Port Washington Branch near Mets-Willets Point Station and in Island Park. It was at the Island Park location that the storm deposited some boats and cargo container units on the LIRR tracks adjacent to Reynolds Channel.

As a precautionary measure prior to the storm, the LIRR removed or secured 591 crossing gate arms at the LIRR’s 295 grade crossing throughout its system to prevent the gates from snapping in the high winds. The LIRR is in the process of restoring the gate arms and power to the railroad crossing gates; however power outages may be a factor in restoring the power to the crossings.


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Posted 31 October 2012 - 02:13 PM

Again, this is not official from the MTA, but this seems to be the breakdown of what subway lines will run tomorrow and what sections of said lines will operate:

1 Trains - Will operate local between 242nd Street (Bronx) and Times Square-42nd Street.
2 Trains - Will operate between 241st Street (Bronx) and Times Square-42nd St, with express service between 96th Street and Times Square.
3 Trains - Suspended
4 Trains - Will operate in two sections making all local stops: Between Woodlawn (Bronx) and Grand Central-42nd Street, and between Borough Hall and New Lots Avenue
5 Trains - Will operate express in Brooklyn between Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center and Flatbush Ave.
6 Trains - Will operate local between Pelham Bay Park and Grand Central-42nd Street.
7 Trains - Suspended
42nd Street Shuttle - Will operate between Times Square and Grand Central.
A Trains - Will operate in two sections making all local stops: Between 168th Street (Manhattan) and 34th Street-Penn Station, and Between Jay Street/MetroTech and Lefferts Blvd.
B & C Trains - Suspended
D Trains - Will operate in two sections: Between 205th Street (Bronx) and 34th Street-Herald Square making all local stops; and In Brooklyn, between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center and Bay Parkway making express stops between Pacific Street and 36th St
E Trains - Suspended
F Trains - Will operate in two sections making all local stops: Between 179th Street (Queens) and 34th Street-Herald Square; and between Jay Street-MetroTech and Avenue X.
G Trains - Suspended
J Trains - Will operate between Jamaica Center and Hewes Street making all local stops.
L Trains - Will operate between Broadway Junction and rockaway Parkway making all local stops.
M Trains - Will operate between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway and Metropolitan Avenue.
N Trains - Will operate between Ditmars Blvd. (Queens) and 34th Street-Herald Sq making all local stops.
Q Trains - Suspended
R Trains - Will operate in Brooklyn between Jay Street-MetroTech and 95th Street making all local stops.
Franklin Ave Shuttle - Suspended
Rockaway Park - Suspended

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 02:29 PM

Here is the official list from the MTA in PDF form.
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Posted 31 October 2012 - 02:59 PM

And here's an interesting Subway map put out by WNYC.org showing what service is expected to operate tomorrow.
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