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Posted 18 December 2012 - 06:24 PM

Official Port Authority of NY & NJ press release:

GOVERNOR CUOMO AND GOVERNOR CHRISTIE ANNOUNCE RESUMPTION OF PATH RAIL SERVICE FROM HOBOKEN TO 33RD STREET TO BEGIN ON DECEMBER 19



Date: Dec 18, 2012

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Governor Chris Christie today announced that PATH rail service resumes at the Hoboken station with service to and from the 33rd Street station in Manhattan beginning tomorrow, December 19 at 5 a.m., following extensive, around the clock post-Hurricane Sandy repairs. Trains initially will run in both directions until 10 p.m. seven days a week.

Today’s announcement means weekday service between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. will be back at all 13 PATH stations and on three of PATH’s four regular lines: Journal Square to 33rd Street, Hoboken to 33rd Street and Newark to the World Trade Center. With the restoration of service from Hoboken, PATH travelers now can access the entire PATH system between New Jersey and New York. The return of Hoboken service provides more than 29,000 commuters with restored mass transit between Hoboken and Midtown Manhattan in time for the holidays.

The return of service to all 13 stations comes less than eight weeks after Hurricane Sandy decimated the entire PATH system, flooding the tunnels with as much as eight feet of water, and destroying critical signal and switching systems.

Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of PATH employees, the return of limited 24-hour PATH service is expected by year’s end and in time for New Year’s Eve. For the time being, service on weekends will be available between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m., on both the Newark to 33rd Street and Hoboken to 33rd Street lines. There will be no service to Exchange Place and the World Trade Center on the weekends to allow work to proceed on bringing back service between Hoboken and the World Trade Center. Travelers wishing to go downtown during those times may access a downtown MTA train nearby one of the PATH Manhattan stations.

Resumption of direct service between Hoboken and the World Trade Center remains several weeks away pending ongoing work and replacement of badly damaged signal equipment. PATH workers and contractors have been working 24/7 since the storm, and will continue to do so until full service is returned on all lines. In the meantime, travelers from Hoboken may access Lower Manhattan by connecting with one of several downtown MTA trains nearby one of the PATH Manhattan stations. For a complete list of alternate routes, visit the Port Authority’s website http://www.panynj.gov/path/ .

Shutting down Newark to 33rd Street weekend PATH service the past two weeks allowed workers long uninterrupted stretches to make repairs, allowing the speedier reopening of the Hoboken PATH station. Each weekend closure has meant cutting five or more days off the agency’s recovery timeline to restore both Hoboken and 24-hour service. Since the storm, PATH workers and contractors have pumped more than 10 million gallons of water from system tunnels, and fixed and replaced numerous switches and signaling equipment.

For up-to-date information, follow PATH on Twitter @PATHTweet.

Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency’s network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than $23 billion in annual wages and $80 billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where construction crews are building the iconic One World Trade Center, which is now the tallest skyscraper in New York. The Port Authority receives no tax revenue from either the state of New York or New Jersey or from the City of New York. The agency relies on revenues generated by facility users, tolls, fees and rents as well as loans, bond financing, and federal grants to fund its operations. For more information, please visit http://www.panynj.gov/ .

Most important besides resumption of weekday service at all stations is that they will return to 24 hours by New Years.


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Posted 18 December 2012 - 08:36 PM

Most important besides resumption of weekday service at all stations is that they will return to 24 hours by New Years.


Well even if things fall behind schedule on that idea, one would hope that they'd be smart enough not to shut down the system at 10 PM on New Years Eve.
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 12:17 PM

I trust that the bus shuttles and light rail arrangements will remain in place, since it is still impossible to take a one-seat PATH ride between Hoboken and any other station in New Jersey. I'm guessing that there are two sections of the system that haven't yet been fully repaired: (1) the north-south connections between Hoboken and Newport, and (2) the north-east connections between Newport and Exchange Place. Otherwise they would have at very least offered what is the normal nighttime/weekend service pattern with the dogleg into and out of Hoboken on the way to and from 33rd Street. However now that construction at the WTC site should be wrapping up soon, hopefully they will go back to the service pattern that existed for just a few years, with the four weekday lines (including HOB-WTC) operating on weekends.


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Posted 19 December 2012 - 10:36 PM

I suspect based upon what I've read on the flooding, that the problem is strictly Caissons Interlocking/Wye, which is the north/south leg of the Wye between Hoboken and the rest of the system. The north-east leg has been restored, which is what allowed them to run to 33rd. And of course they restored the south-east leg of the Wye a long time ago. I don't think that the water ever reached Grove-Junctions Interlocking/Wye, which is what permits moves between WTC and the east-west line towards Journal Sq.and the north-south line to Pavonia-Newport.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:05 PM

Second Avenue Sagas, 12/20/12:

The provincialism of the PATH train


If the G train, is New York City’s forgotten stepchild of a subway, what does that make the PATH trains? Serving as a vital link between rapidly-growing waterfront communities in New Jersey and both Lower Manhattan and Midtown, PATH saw a record 76.6 million riders in 2011. But since Superstorm Sandy swamped the system, PATH riders have been left in the dark by a two-state agency seemingly responsible to no one.


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Posted 22 December 2012 - 09:07 AM

Jersey Journal, Jersey City, NJ, 12/20/12:

Commuters coming home to Hoboken via restored PATH service are all smiles


Delighted commuters returning to Hoboken yesterday evening from work in Manhattan said the PATH train worked “flawlessly” on its first day back after Hurricane Sandy.


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Posted 25 December 2012 - 10:58 AM

Jersey Journal, Jersey City, NJ, 12/25/12:

PATH problems caused by Hurricane Sandy are driving some out of N.J.


Superstorm Sandy crippled the Port Authority Trans-Hudson line, a 24-hour subway which last year ferried 76.6 million passengers between Manhattan and New Jersey.


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Posted 26 December 2012 - 05:40 PM

Can you say, "Here we go again" ??? This picture was taken today, not back in early November after Sandy. The last thing the PATH system needs is more water. https://twitter.com/...7020416/photo/1


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Posted 02 January 2013 - 10:05 PM

PANYNJ press release:

PATH WILL RUN SERVICE BETWEEN NEWARK AND WORLD TRADE CENTER THIS WEEKEND
Changes to weekend service will expedite post-Sandy storm repairs

Date: Jan 02, 2013

Seeking to return 24/7 PATH rail service as quickly as possible, the Port Authority will run service this weekend from Newark, New Jersey to the-World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan while crews work on repairs between Hoboken and 33rd Street.

PATH's Newark to World Trade Center train line, which includes stops at Harrison, Journal Square, Grove Street and Exchange Place in New Jersey will be operating from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. During this period, PATH will suspend service from Newark to 33rd Street, via Hoboken.

The Port Authority anticipates the change in weekend service will help restore 24-hour service in seven to ten days. Workers can make repairs to the PATH system significantly faster when power to third rails is turned off, with no trains running in active construction zones. As first announced by the agency prior to the start of the holiday season, a weekend of suspended service provides PATH crews with 48 hours or more of uninterrupted work time, which in turn has been helping to shave several days off of the recovery schedule for 24/7 service.

The storm damage to equipment throughout the PATH system was enormous. Salt water that poured into the Hoboken tunnels shorted out electrical systems and corroded decades-old equipment, rendering much of it inoperable. Fixing the system has required complicated staging operations, following the extensive pumping of water from the station and connected tunnels along with restoration of power in the first days of recovery. Damage assessments of signals, switches and tracks followed, with removal of destroyed equipment and ongoing efforts to get certain replacement parts manufactured. Thousands of wires to signals and switching equipment need replacement, with each individual wire requiring subsequent safety testing.

The Port Authority will provide free shuttle buses operated by Academy Bus at the Hoboken and Newport PATH stations, which will bring passengers to Grove Street, where they can access the Newark-WTC line. The loop between Newport and Grove Street will run every five minutes or less, with service every 15 minutes between Hoboken and Grove Street.

Weekend PATH customers traveling between New Jersey and Manhattan can use the MTA’s subway lines near the World Trade Center PATH line for travel to Uptown Manhattan locations and back. Nearby subway lines include the 1, 2, 3, A, C, E and R trains.

The R train is at the Cortlandt Street station across Church Street from the World Trade Center. The A, C and E trains can be accessed at the Chambers Street Station, with various entrances along Church Street. The 2 and 3 lines are available just north of the WTC site at the Park Place Station at the intersection with Church Street. And the 1 line is available at Chambers and West Broadway. The MTA schedule is subject to change. For up-to-date information, please visit http://www.mta.info/ .

Alternatively, NJ Transit trains offer weekend Midtown service to New York Penn Station, while various bus lines also operate weekends between New Jersey and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Cross-Hudson River ferry service also is available from New Jersey to Midtown on the city’s West Side. For example, Waterway operates ferry services from Weehawken, Hoboken/14th Street, and Lincoln Harbor, New Jersey to 39th Street in Midtown Manhattan on the weekends. Connecting shuttle bus service is available in Manhattan and New Jersey. For more information on schedules, visit http://www.nywaterwa...ndSchedule.aspx .

Additionally, Port Authority customer service representatives will be available at PATH stations during this weekend to help riders find their way with a minimum of inconvenience.

CONTACT: 212-435-7777

Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency’s network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than $23 billion in annual wages and $80 billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where construction crews are building the iconic One World Trade Center, which is now the tallest skyscraper in New York. The Port Authority receives no tax revenue from either the state of New York or New Jersey or from the City of New York. The agency relies on revenues generated by facility users, tolls, fees and rents as well as loans, bond financing, and federal grants to fund its operations. For more information, please visit http://www.panynj.gov/ .



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Posted 11 January 2013 - 08:28 PM

Railway Age, 1/9/13:

PATH round-the-clock service inches ahead


PATH has combined portions of three regular daytime routes to re-establish overnight service on part of its system for the first time since Hurricane Sandy crippled the bistate rapid transit system Oct. 29. The service is set to commence Wednesday evening.


Article here

Still unclear from this is how the overnight/weekend trains will get from Newport to Hoboken, given they say the Hoboken-WTC line is still out of service. The only way would be to take the line into the trans-Hudson tunnel, and then reverse and wrong rail on the New York-bound track into Hoboken, and then foward back into the same tunnel. Newark-bound trains would have to go right into Hoboken, then backtrack into the tunnel, and then forward again on the connection to Newport and onward to Newark.


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