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Metro-North news release, 5/16:

 

Metro-North Schedule Change In Effect from June 4 Through October 7

 

New Schedule Will Accommodate 18 Week Mid-Harlem Line Track Improvement Project

 

MTA Metro-North Railroad today announced that required schedule adjustments for certain Harlem Line and Hudson Line trains will take effect on Sunday, June 4, through Saturday, October 7. Most of these temporary schedule changes will be between one and six minutes.

 

Harlem Line
During this 18 week period, Metro-North will conduct a $5 million comprehensive track improvement program between Mount Vernon West and Crestwood that will renew the railroad’s infrastructure and ensure continuing train safety and reliability. Crews will install 1,000 new crossties and 1,160 feet of new rail, improve drainage, renew the rail bed, and perform general clean-up of the area along the tracks.

 

To minimize the disruption, the project will remove one track at a time from service for an uninterrupted period in this three-track area, allowing several maintenance groups to work concurrently. To lessen the potential for rush hour train congestion and delays on this four-mile segment, Metro-North is making a number of temporary schedule changes as follows.

• Seventeen a.m. peak trains will operate between four minutes earlier and six minutes later.
• Five a.m. reverse peak trains will operate between six minutes earlier and three minutes later.
• Eleven p.m. peak trains will operate between two and six minutes later.
• Six p.m. reverse Peak trains will operate between four and eight minutes later.

There are no changes to Harlem Line weekend and holiday service.

 

Metro-North will monitor train operations during the project and will make additional adjustments if necessary.

 

Hudson Line
On the Hudson Line, to accommodate adjusted Harlem Line trains on the shared approach to Grand Central Terminal, two p.m. peak trains will operate four minutes later.

 

On weekends, northbound Upper Hudson trains will operate up to ten minutes later at Beacon, New Hamburg and Poughkeepsie because of a switch replacement project near Beacon.

 

New Haven Line
There are no schedule changes to the New Haven Line.

 

For More Information
New June 4 schedule information is available at www.mta.info/mnr and timetables are available at Grand Central Terminal and at outlying stations. The next schedule change for the New Haven Line, Harlem Line and Hudson Line will be effective October 8, 2017.