Commuter Chaos: Penn Station, Traffic Finally Clear After Route 495 Crash Cripples Holiday Travel
With the Lincoln Tunnel and 495 shut down for hours, drivers were forced to try to get to alternate routes out of the city.
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With the Lincoln Tunnel and 495 shut down for hours, drivers were forced to try to get to alternate routes out of the city.
Trains got moving again, but delays lingered throughout the afternoon.
Two tracks will be taken out of service to allow for repair work that will last all summer, affecting NJ Transit, Amtrak and LIRR.
Certain New Jersey Transit lines will be diverted to Hoboken starting Monday to allow for repairs at Penn Station.
Commuters had to contend with the closure of 34th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. It reopened after the crane was removed.
There is literally a light at the end of the tunnel for Long Island Railroad riders at Penn Station.
There's some good news for Metro-North riders who travel to the West Side of Manhattan
Schumer is blaming the agency for delaying the Penn Station access plan, which would give Bronx and Westchester residents a direct route to Manhattan's west side.
The maintenance train broke down inside the North Tube of the Hudson River Tunnel around 6 a.m. Friday.
Commuters in New York and New Jersey may have found something scarier than a Halloween ghoul – having to rely on NJ Transit.
At least six trains were affected by the trespasser, who was in the tunnel near Penn Station.
A train on the Montclair Boonton line derailed around 6:20 p.m. Thursday when the wheels on the first car came off the track shortly after leaving Penn Station.
Northeast Corridor Train 3886 became disabled around 11:45 p.m. Friday on its way into the station when Amtrak overhead wires dislodged, causing a metal bracket to fall onto a train car.
Long Island Rail Road riders are facing service changes Monday morning due to two separate incidents.
A Long Island Rail Road train with two derailed axles caused service changes Wednesday along the Port Washington Branch.
At one point, there were delays of up to 45 minutes in and out of Penn Station after a train became disabled in one of the Hudson River tunnels.
The work will take place at Penn Station, as well as in the Empire Tunnel and on the Spuyten Duyvil bridge.
Cancellations and delays across the board made the commute almost as messy inside as the weather outside.
NJ TRANSIT says riders are facing delays up to 60 minutes in and out of Penn Station Thursday morning.
The TSA is testing two types of units in partnership with Amtrak.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said Monday that the federal Transportation Security Administration will start testing the screening equipment on Tuesday.
Some train service was suspended into and out of Penn Station late Sunday afternoon due to a power outage.
Members of the Long Island FAILroad Facebook group commiserated at a Penn Station bar one night during rush hour and banded together to take their gripes about train service to social media.
Rail officials said the impact on commuters won't be as significant as the changes riders dealt with last summer.
Train commuters from Long Island and New Jersey were bracing this weekend for a second round of track repairs at Penn Station that will cause the cancellation of some trains and the re-routing of others.
