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Amtrak warns of 'significant delays' in and out of New York Monday
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Louis C. Hochman
Published Dec 23, 2024
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Amtrak said riders in and out of New York should expect "significant delays" Monday, after downed overhead wires temporarily suspended all service between New York and Philadelphia over the weekend.
The train service said in an advisory there would be continued delays along the Northeast Corridor, because of single-tracking conditions that could cause congestion throughout its network. All trains between Washington Union Station and Boston South Station could be affected, and some trains were canceled entirely to minimize other delays. By mid-morning, several of Amtrak's flagship Acela trains had been canceled.
"This is an ongoing situation; crews are actively working on resolving this issue," Amtrak wrote in the advisory. "Please note that plans are fluid and may change, and we will notify customers affected as soon as possible."
But it said it had no estimate for the resumption of standard service. Amtrak said it would waive additional charges for customers who called 800-USA-RAIL to change their reservation times.
Although NJ Transit uses Amtrak's Northeast Corridor lines in northern New Jersey, it only reported isolated delays Monday morning on its Morris-Essex, Main-Bergen and Northeast Corridor lines.
The delays come amid one of the busiest travel times of the year, with Christmas and Hanukkah just days away.
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Louis C. Hochman
After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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