Messy Commute As Tri-State Area Cleans Up From Storm
Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road and NJ TRANSIT are all planning normal service Thursday, but say weather-related delays are possible.
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Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road and NJ TRANSIT are all planning normal service Thursday, but say weather-related delays are possible.
The second nor'easter in less than a week has disrupted service for Metro-North, NJ TRANSIT and Amtrak.
While flight activity is continuing at area airports, hundreds of flights have been canceled.
Metro-North says it is operating on a reduced weekday schedule with some combined and cancelled trains while LIRR trains are running with about 15-minute delays.
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Service on Metro-North's Danbury Branch and the Long Island Rail Road's Ronkonkoma and Montauk branches is suspended as rain and wind continue to hit parts of the Tri-State area.
So much for the evening rush. Riders on both Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road are dealing with delays Thursday night.
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The trains has been partially removed from the tracks, but because of the damage, customers traveling between Stamford and Rye to Grand Central will need to use the outbound platform.
Officials say there were 185 people on board and 12 people suffered minor injuries, including one person who had a preexisting heart issue.
Fares have gone up for weekly and monthly MetroCards as well as for LIRR and Metro-North riders. Tolls have also gone up for MTA bridges and tunnels.
The MTA will keep the base MetroCard fare for subways and buses at $2.75, but fares will be going up for weekly and monthly cards.
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Metro-North is operating on a modified schedule into and out of Grand Central Terminal Wednesday.
Conditions were beginning to return to normal late Tuesday afternoon, after a snowstorm that hit the Tri-State Area caused some major transit changes as well as thousands of flight cancellations.
Mass transit operations across the Tri-State are gearing up for possible changes ahead of a powerful winter storm expected to sweep the area Tuesday.
The storm is expected to dump more than a foot of snow with some areas seeing higher amounts.
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Forecasters are watching for a chance of snow this weekend in New York and New Jersey as harsh winter weather conditions continue.
The First Alert Weather Team is tracking a storm that could bring snow to the New York and New Jersey area. Frigid temperatures will last throughout the week.
Although the snowstorm has passed, the cold weather will linger with temperatures below freezing each day.
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Neither storm will generate all that much snow. In the interim, CBS News New York's Lonnie Quinn says we'll see temperatures around the freezing mark on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
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