The majority of PATH service between New Jersey and New York Metropolis went down for hours Thursday morning after a monitor fireplace in Jersey Metropolis introduced the trains to a halt.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey first introduced scattered delays round 7:30 a.m. after a monitor fireplace broke out west of the Grove St. station in Jersey Metropolis.
Trains had been held in place whereas crews labored to extinguish the monitor blaze, and repair resumed shortly earlier than 9 a.m.
Through the outage, just one department of the PATH community — service from Hoboken to thirty third. St. in Manhattan — remained in operation.
NJ Transit rail and bus companies cross-honored PATH tickets systemwide throughout the fireplace, whereas the Hudson-Bergen Gentle Rail and New York Waterway additionally honored PATH tickets on choose routes.
Some riders took to social media to precise their frustration. One particular person mentioned prospects weren’t being allowed right into a station, whereas one other mentioned the 8:56 practice at NJ Transit was “packed” with PATH commuters.
Round 9 a.m., PATH officers introduced that service had resumed “with residual delays,” and ticket cross-honoring ended at 10 a.m.
Initially Revealed: Could 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM EDT
