More LIRR, NJT Trains As Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Opens To Buses
More mass transit is returning to normal Monday across the Tri-State area two weeks after Superstorm Sandy flooded subways and tunnels and damaged tracks, signals and overhead wires.
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More mass transit is returning to normal Monday across the Tri-State area two weeks after Superstorm Sandy flooded subways and tunnels and damaged tracks, signals and overhead wires.
NJ TRANSIT officials announced over the weekend that limited service will begin Monday morning on the Bergen and Pascack Valley Lines.
Agency officials announced Saturday night that limited service will be restored Monday morning on the Bergen and Pascack Valley lines. Also being restored Monday is limited service from High Bridge to Newark on the Raritan Valley Line.
Commuters packed Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains. Many were so crowded, riders couldn't even get out the door. Others had to push their way onto trains from the platform.
With PATH service being suspended today and NJ TRANSIT rail service limited, more commuters are using the ferries to cross the Hudson River.
The Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven Lines will operate with regularly scheduled service on Monday, including the Wassaic Branch on the Harlem Line and the Waterbury and Danbury Branches on the New Haven Line.
As NJ TRANSIT works on restoring rail and bus service to New York City in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, the Christie administration on Sunday approved an emergency bus plan to get people across the Hudson River starting Monday morning.
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For those of you hoping to get around or out of New Jersey via public transportation, you'll have to keep waiting. Superstorm Sandy has taken out nearly all of NJ TRANSIT.
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