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Buses To Replace New Canaan Branch Trains

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on April 17th, 2017 at 6:42 pm

The MTA Metro-North Railroad has just announced that buses will be replacing trains on the New Canaan Branch for the next 3 weekends. Here are the details via the press release I was sent:

MTA Metro-North Railroad is advising customers that buses will substitute for trains on the New Canaan Branch on the three weekends of April 21-23, 28-30, and May 5-7. Substitute bus service on all weekends will begin at 11 p.m. on Fridays and last through the last train of the night on Sundays. Stamford-bound buses will operate 15-20 minutes earlier than scheduled trains. Customers should listen for announcements and check local or express bus service to their destination while boarding.

The weekend service change will help ensure the on-going reliability and safety of the New Canaan Branch. Metro-North crews will be replacing a switch in Stamford, which will obstruct train movement to New Canaan. This weekend’s work is part of the railroad’s larger, continuing switch replacement program; this program keeps locations were the tracks meet or cross in a state of good repair. Crews will take advantage of the branch outage to cut brush and trees, weld joints and improve drainage.

To Stamford:

Bus service will begin on Friday evenings with an 11:10 p.m. bus that will substitute for the 11:28 p.m. train from New Canaan to Stamford, making all station stops to Stamford where it will connect with the regularly scheduled 11:56 p.m. train at Stamford.
Throughout the weekend, buses will operate up to 20 minutes earlier than normal train times. At Stamford station, customers will connect with regularly scheduled train service. For a detailed bus schedule, customers may visit:

http://web.mta.info/mnr/pdf/NewCanaanBus%203_8.pdf

To New Canaan:

Bus service will begin on Friday evenings after 11 p.m. and continue through the last train of the day on Sunday. Buses will depart from the Stamford station at regularly scheduled train times. For a detailed bus schedule, customers may visit:

http://web.mta.info/mnr/pdf/NewCanaanBus%203_8.pdf

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Service Diversions 04-14-17

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on April 14th, 2017 at 4:53 pm

I have just updated the Service Diversions for the upcoming weekend through the end of next week.

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MTA Teams With Mount Vernon On $25M Project

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on April 10th, 2017 at 2:14 pm

The city of Mount Vernon is teaming with the MTA on a $25M project to fix multiple community bridges. Zak Failla of the Daily Voice has more:

Late last week, Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas, the city’s grants team and members of the Law Department met with officials and engineers from the MTA to discuss the $25 million project to replace five city bridges along the New Haven Metro-North line, including the 10th Avenue and 3rd Avenue Bridges, which “have been closed for far too long,” according to Thomas.

Click here to view the complete report.

This is long overdue as the condition of those bridges have been in horrible shape for years now. Why it took them this long to address them is a concern to me. Hopefully they will be more timely with other infrastructure repairs throughout the system.

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Service Diversions 04-07-17

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on April 7th, 2017 at 6:34 pm

I have just updated the Service Diversions for the upcoming weekend through the end of next week.

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Buses To Replace Some Harlem Line Trains

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on April 7th, 2017 at 2:49 pm

Next week buses will replace some midday trains on the Harlem line between Southeast & Wassaic. Here are the complete details via the press release:

MTA Metro-North Railroad today announced that from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, and Thursday, April 13, buses will substitute for trains between Southeast and Wassaic on the Harlem Line.

This service change will help ensure the on-going reliability and safety of the Harlem Line. Metro-North crews will make track improvements and install walkways at the Great Swamp bridge south of Patterson.

Service details are below:

Southbound

From 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., buses will substitute for trains at all stations from Wassaic to Southeast. Buses will make all scheduled stops and will connect at Southeast with regularly scheduled trains to Grand Central Terminal. Buses will depart 15-30 minutes earlier than normally scheduled train times.

For a bus and train schedule, customers should visit:

http://web.mta.info/mnr/pdf/Wassaicbus327.pdf

Northbound
From 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., northbound Harlem Lines trains will connect with buses at Southeast. The buses will make all scheduled stops to Wassaic. Customers should allow up to 30 minutes in additional travel time, depending on the destination station.

For a bus and train schedule, customers should visit:

http://web.mta.info/mnr/pdf/Wassaicbus327.pdf

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