Commuters in New York and Connecticut have been experiencing heavy delays Friday morning, after a Thursday night outage hampered Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad service by Connecticut.
An MTA spokesman mentioned crews labored by the night time, enabling operation on a minimum of one monitor within the in a single day hours.
By morning, partial service had been restored, with Metro-North reporting residual delays of as much as quarter-hour. The primary Metro-North prepare of the day, Practice 1188 certain for NYC from New Haven, departed quarter-hour late and didn’t make all stops, an MTA spokesman mentioned.
Amtrak reported heavy rail congestion continued after the morning rush as restore work was ongoing.
“All services operating between Stamford and New Haven are currently experiencing a delay due to an electrical system outage, resulting in heavy rail congestion and speed restrictions in the area,” Amtrak mentioned in a press release “Our rail partner’s track maintenance team is currently working to restore the electrical system.”
The reason for the outage continues to be below investigation.
