NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) — A brutal week for commuters continued Friday with New Jersey Transit rail service in and out of New York’s Penn Station subject to large delays.
Due to a disabled Amtrak train in the tunnel that runs under the Hudson River linking New Jersey to Manhattan, rail service is subject to as much as 45-minute delays, the agency said in a social media post on X.
A spokesperson for NJ Transit said that train tickets are being cross honored by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s PATH trains. They referred further questions to Amtrak, which did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The Hudson River crossing is a pain point for train operators because the tunnel is more than a century old and subject to intense congestion. The Gateway project — a massive infrastructure endeavor — aims to alleviate those problems by building a new tunnel and rehabilitating the existing one. Construction on that development will stop as soon as next week unless the federal government unlocks necessary funds to continue.
Friday’s service disruptions follow a slate of transit issues earlier in the week after the heaviest winter storm in years dropped mounds of snow on the city.
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