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Independence Day (Fourth of July) Holiday Service It’s not only patriotic to take Metro-North this Independence Day (Saturday, July 4th), but it’s also good for the environment. (You’ll be helping to keep our “spacious skies” pollution free and beautiful.) Metro-North will operate plenty of service to get you to wherever your Independence Day plans take you: we will offer early getaway trains on Thursday, July 2nd, a regular Friday schedule on July 3rd, and a regular Saturday schedule on July 4th. Visit our schedules page or see a current timetable for details. Avoid traffic, tolls, and hassles (it’s the American way) and take the train to see Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks®. This year sees the pyrotechnic splendor return to the Hudson River for the first time since 2000 to celebrate On Thursday, July 2, the following additional service will operate from Grand Central Terminal: On the • 1:45 PM stopping at • 2:47 PM stopping at • 3:25 PM stopping at • 4:01 PM stopping at On the • 1:45 PM stopping at Harlem-125th Street, then operating express to Chappaqua making all stops through Southeast. • 3:12 PM stopping at • 3:33 PM stopping at Harlem-125th Street, White Plains, then making all stops from Goldens Bridge through Southeast. • 4:08 PM stopping at On the • 1 PM stopping at • 2:04 PM stopping at • 3:01 PM stopping at • 3:04 PM making all stops from • 3:15 PM stopping at • 3:26 PM stopping at • 3:29 PM making all stops from • 4:06 PM stopping at In order to provide this early-getaway service, some later PM peak trains are cancelled or combined on all three lines. Please check your current Also listed in the timetables,are additional departures from Grand Central on the evening of Saturday, July 4, to bring home those viewing the Macy's fireworks. The Harlem Line will have an additional train departing at 10:45 PM, and the New Haven Line will have an additonal train departing at 11:07 PM. Note: Special schedules will be in effect on some connecting services, including the Hudson Rail Link bus service, the Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry, and the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry. Click here for information on connecting services. West-of-Hudson On Thursday, July 2, on the Port Jervis Line an early Getaway train will depart On Friday, July 3, a weekend schedule will be in effect, with the following extra trains operating on the Port Jervis Line: ●A 6:21 AM train from Port Jervis making all stops in ●A 5:20 PM train from Hoboken arriving in Port Jervis at 7:30 PM. (A 5:14 PM train will depart from Penn Station, arriving in Secaucus at 5:23 PM for a 5:30 PM connection with this train.) Please check your current Port Jervis/Pascack Valley Line timetables for details.
Tarrytown Station Construction Begins July 6 In support of improvements to the Tarrytown Station building, platforms, and overpasses, the following changes will be implemented beginning July 6: We thank you for your patience during this work to improve your station.
Waterbury Branch Busing July 13-August 14 Bus service will replace all Waterbury Branch weekday and weekend train service from July 13 through August 14. During this time, Metro-North will install 15,200 ties and resurface 19 miles of track south of Derby Station to This continuous outage will allow work to continue uninterrupted on weekdays, and enable preparatory and clean-up to occur on weekends. This tie replacement project is required to sustain train service reliability. The Connecticut Department of Transportation and Metro-North regret any inconvenience to Waterbury Branch customers during this improvement.
New East-of-Hudson Schedules Effective July 13 On the Upper Hudson Line, completion of track work between Beacon and Poughkeepsie results in the end of schedule changes that have been in effect since April 5th. Also to accommodate future track maintenance outages, the schedule pattern for off-peak and weekend trains from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central is being changed from 33 minutes past each hour to 40 minutes past each hour. In some cases, weekend travel times are shortened by one minute to reflect actual running times. See a new schedule for details beginning the week of July 6th. Progress on the station rehabilitation project at Philipse Manor, Scarborough and Ossining will require substitute bus service for about a year at Philipse Manor and Scarborough for AM Reverse Peak and PM Reverse Peak customers. About two dozen customers will have travel time increases up to 20 minutes. On the Waterbury Branch, tie replacement and bridge maintenance requires the suspension of train service between Bridgeport and Waterbury from July 13 through August 14. Substitute buses will replace 15 weekday trains and 10 weekend trains, resulting in longer travel times for all customers on the Waterbury Branch.
New West-of-Hudson Timetables Effective July 12 On the Pascack Valley Line, customers will now have four Metro-North Railroad express trains on the weekend—trains that will no longer stop in New Jersey. The new expresses will depart Spring Valley for Hoboken at 9:27AM and 11:37 AM, as well as two departures from Hoboken to Spring Valley at 3:20 PM and 7:22 PM. This new express service will provide New York State Pascack Valley Line customers with savings of up to 23 minutes in travel time. On the Port Jervis Line, the last evening departure from Hoboken on weekdays and weekends will now depart 35 minutes later, at 12:40 AM, and connect with a Penn Station departure that will leave 45 minutes later, at 12:34 AM. This will provide numerous advantages including less wait time for the connection, more time for late night customers in New York City, a 15-minute shorter ride for the Penn Station departure customers, and a better transit alternative for late evening events at the Meadowlands Complex when NJ Transit begins direct service there later this summer. Check our schedules page beginning July 6th for details.
New Fares for Travel Within New York State Effective Wednesday, June 17 East of While exact increases vary depending on ticket type, the following general fare changes are scheduled: Full fare one-way, full fare ten-trip, weekly, and monthly fares to/from View new ticket prices online. Details are also available in our Tickets and Fares brochures available at outlying ticket offices, and at the Grand Central Terminal Information booths and Station Master’s Office. We'd like to take this opportunity to remind customers of the following money-saving purchasing options: • Buy your already discounted Monthly ticket online through WebTicket and save an additional 2%. Buy any ticket other than a Monthly online through WebTicket and save 5%. Use any major credit card to make your purchase. Postage is free and tickets arrive two to three business days after you place your order. • Join Mail&Ride, our monthly ticket-by-mail subscription service, and save 2% percent on Monthly tickets. Save 4% percent when you purchase a combined Monthly ticket/monthly unlimited MetroCard. You can manage your account online, and pay using a number of convenient options. • Ask your Human Resources Department if your company offers pre-tax transit fare programs. You can save over $1,000 a year by having a portion of your pre-tax salary set aside for commutation costs. West-of-Hudson: New fares will go into effect for all Metro-North stations on the Exact increases vary depending on ticket type. The following general fare changes are scheduled: · Intermediate fares will increase by up to 33%. · The Mail & Ride fare discount on the railroad portion of the joint MonthlyCommutation/Monthly Unlimited Ride MetroCard will decrease from 5% to 4%. We'd like to take this opportunity to remind customers of the following money-saving purchasing options: • You can buy any type of ticket at one of our ticket vending machines or at the ticket office in either • Join Mail&Ride, our monthly ticket-by-mail subscription service, and save 2% percent on Monthly tickets. Save 4% percent when you purchase a combined Monthly ticket/monthly unlimited MetroCard. You can manage your account online, and pay using a number of convenient options. • Ask your Human Resources Department if your company offers pre-tax transit fare programs. You can save over $1,000 a year by having a portion of your pre-tax salary set aside for commutation costs.
The New Fairfield-Southeast Shuttle Three new park and ride lots and a new shuttle bus between New Fairfield, Connecticut and our Southeast Station, improves access to Metro-North Railroad’s Harlem Line train service. The three new park and ride lots—two in New Fairfield at Company A Fire House and Ball Pond Fire House, and at Temple Beth Elohim in Brewster—will provide easy, free parking. On weekdays, five morning bus trips from New Fairfield will meet trains departing Southeast from 6:13 AM through 7:51 AM. On weeknights, the 20-passenger buses will make eight bus trips from Southeast, meeting trains from Grand Central between 4:20 PM and 7:22 PM. A Guaranteed Ride Home will be provided at times when the shuttle is not operating. The UniTicket which includes both bus and rail fare from Southeast, is $327 a month for the month of June, and will go on sale May 20. The UniTicket price as of July will be $357, and will go on sale June 20. The one-way shuttle fare is $1.25, 60 cents for seniors and 90 cents for students K-12. This service is co-funded by the New York State Department of Transportation and the Connecticut Department of Transportation and is offered in cooperation with HART, the Housatonic Area Regional Transit District. HART also offers shuttle services from Visit our Connecting Service page, and click on the HART link for more details.
New Bike Policy Effective May 3 You’ll love Metro-North’s new “bike friendly” policy. It makes it easier for those who use bicycles as part of their travel plans and activities to ride our trains, and it does not affect the quality of our service for you “regular commuters” who don’t. So everyone wins! The new policy now allows bicycles: Please remember: bicycles are still not permitted on inbound AM Peak and outbound PM Peak trains as well as during the holiday periods from which they are currently prohibited. (Exceptions to this policy are identified in your timetable.) In addition, allowing bicycles on our trains will be at the discretion of our conductors, should conditions on a particular train warrant their being prohibited… (Folding bikes, however, are allowed on board all Metro-North trains. Please fold your bike before boarding and don’t block the aisle or doors. ) View a bike permit application for full details.
Hudson Line Platform Changes Through 2009 The next phase of the Hudson Line station rehabilitation project began in January 2008, and will last for approximately 18 months. During this phase, we will replace the inbound platforms at Philipse Manor, Scarborough, and This work will require that we continue to change the way in which we operate trains from Additionally, weekday off-peak customers at Tarrytown, Philipse Manor, Scarborough, and Please look for signage with exact details at your station, and also listen for announcements in the event that operating conditions require a last-minute revision to track assignments. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
Grand Central North Closed Weekends Because of low usage and to save costs, Grand Central North is closed on weekends. Weekday Hours remain the same.
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