Calls For Second Tunnel Grow After Third NJ Transit Service Disruption This Week
Trains are back on schedule for New Jersey Transit after a switch problem Friday disrupted morning service for commuters.
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Trains are back on schedule for New Jersey Transit after a switch problem Friday disrupted morning service for commuters.
This morning's commute was much smoother, with NJ Transit having recovered from this week's derailment. But it might not be smooth for much longer.
The Long Island Rail Road says it expects to have regular service restored by Friday morning, however, it will continue to have a "significantly reduced'' rush-hour schedule Thursday afternoon.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel for Long Island Rail Road commuters -- at least until Friday at the earliest.
Long Island Rail Road riders are urged to plan alternate routes to and from work until Wednesday as crews work to fix damage caused by a derailed Amtrak train beneath the East River.
The world's most wanted man is dead, but concerns over retaliation have commuters and police on guard at Penn Station and rail stations across the country.
A Homeland Security intelligence warning sent to law enforcement officials around the country, saying the terror organization was considering tampering with an unspecified U.S. rail track so that a train would fall off the track at a valley or a bridge.
While Mayor Bloomberg says there's no specific threat against the Big Apple after the death of Osama bin Laden, the NYPD was taking no chances.
With heightened security on the streets, a visible police presence, detection dogs walking the beat, New York City is on alert for a possible post-Osama bin Laden retaliatory attack.
There is no specific threat to security but with terrorists vowing revenge after U.S. forces killed jihadi terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, authorities are taking no chances.
Elle McGinnity was in town March 26 and 27 for an Irish dance competition, but in the confusion of checking out of the Millenium Hotel and rushing to Penn Station to catch a train back to Rochester, her dress was left behind.
Owners of businesses near New York City transit hub Pennsylvania Station are complaining to authorities about panhandlers.
The new headquarters will be located a block from Penn Station and will bring with it 1,000 jobs.
Scores of police cars amassed at the United Nations for another day of drills in a week-long exercise that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly boasts have been successful thus far.
Amtrak has cleared equipment that closed one of the two rail tunnels leading in and out of New York City.
Amtrak's president said the project would benefit travelers along the entire Northeast Corridor.
Folks looking to escape New York City early Friday woke up to a traffic headache.
Police say an Amtrak train traveling from New York to Harrisburg, Pa., fatally struck a pedestrian in central New Jersey.
Conductors are finding a big question in New Jersey Transit's expanded quiet car program: How quiet is quiet enough?
New Jersey Transit says it has reopened one of two tracks that were closed by wire damage on its Northeast Corridor rail line.
Country music star Keith Urban is used to seeing screaming fans -- just not necessarily meeting them up close at a train station.
The LIRR will run only a third of its usual trains in and out of Penn Station.
In the end, it was all about dollars and cents.
Spokesman Dan Stessel says service was restored just before 5 a.m. Tuesday, nearly 17 hours after a derailment kept trains from using nine tracks.
A derailed NJ Transit train that snarled the evening commute for tens of thousands of travelers is back on the tracks.
