Metro north Due to heavy demand of passengers, Metro-North Railroad is running extra trains to Grand Central Terminal this afternoon in New Haven line.Railroad spokesman Aaron Donovan said the additional number of trains that can run depends on the availability of train drivers were radio crews.Train to rail traffic controllers who are stopping at stations where the platform form is full of passengers and are already in capacity. Workers are digging switches and platforms compensation for the service can resume. Up to a foot or more of snow fell along shoreline.A Metro North spokesperson says there is much to do in New York, however, that the streets are mostly impassable.The good news is that there trains and customers are not abandoned to their fate. Trains run on a holiday schedule after the service details resumes.More in the schedule change forced by the weather rail for the first working day after Christmas can be found here.
Connecticut has ordered 342 of the high-tech train cars to gradually phase into the Metro-North fleet, with Kawasaki's factory in Lincoln, Neb., expected to ship as many as 10 a month for the next three years. Rell wanted to complete the deal by ordering another 38 cars before she leaves office Jan. 5.But Democrats who want to leave the decision to Democratic Gov.-elect Dan Malloy next month balked at Rell's request. Comptroller Nancy Wyman and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal didn't even show up for the bond commission meeting last week.Rell conceded on Wednesday that with Blumenthal and Wyman boycotting, she couldn't get enough votes to overcome opposition from Republican Rep. Vincent Candelora and two Democrats, Sen. Eileen Daily and Rep. Cameron Staples.
On the same day, The Advocate newspaper of Stamford reported that a glitch had developed with the first six M-8s that are being tested at the New Haven rail yard. Those cars were supposed to go into service this month, but will be delayed until at least mid-January, Transportation Commissioner Jeffrey Parker said Wednesday.We know what the problem is, we know what the fix is," Parker said.Traction motors on the cars occasionally are triggering a "stop" signal on the M-8's computer controls, forcing the whole train to halt needlessly. Parker said that after Kawasaki makes software modifications, the six prototype train cars will undergo 4,000 miles of test runs between New Haven and New York's Grand Central Terminal. If those tests go well, the cars will go into service as early as mid-January, he said. Kawasaki will pay all the costs of the modifications, Parker said.
