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The railroad’s TrainTime app is a game changer. You can not only check the timetable, and buy a ticket but also see how crowded your arriving train will be (so you can find a seat). The app gets downloaded 6000 times a day and is used by 90% of all passengers. And to their credit, it was designed in-house by the MTA’s IT team. Continue Reading →
These express trains depart New Haven at 5:09 a.m., 5:41 a.m., and 7:52 a.m. Three weekday evening rush-hour express trains will depart from Grand Central Terminal with stops in Stamford, Bridgeport, and New Haven. Continue Reading →
Conversion of car bays to convenience stores was approved. But for a C/O and zoning permit, the encroachment onto state Metro-North land has to be addressed. Continue Reading →
By Jim Cameron
Airplanes have Wi-Fi. Even Connecticut’s CTfastrak commuter bus system from New Britain to Hartford gives its passengers free Wi-Fi. Commuter railroads across the US offer Wi-Fi, including Boston’s MBTA. Wi-Fi is everywhere… but not on Metro-North. So the Connecticut legislature has just budgeted $23 million to install 5G technology on the railroad’s M8 cars. Continue Reading →
A Newington man was struck by a Metro-North train in the area of Cos Cob station on Wednesday. Continue Reading →
“Conductors on Metro-North do not enforce the mask rules, leaving that task to the MTA Police. And as CTExaminer.com found in a FOIA complaint last year: in the year after the mask rules went into effect, not a single citation had been issued in Connecticut by MTA police for non-compliance. Not one.” – Jim Cameron Continue Reading →
“This is not a recipe for orderly or responsible development.” – Francis Pickering, Western Connecticut Council of Governments Continue Reading →
Where the vacated Bowtie Cinemas building sits, the applicant proposes a 3,800 sq ft restaurant and pocket park with green spaces and outdoor seating for the restaurant. Continue Reading →
“On some lines the slippery leaves can virtually leave the trains unable to move. Case in point, the Danbury branch line which is an almost continual up-hill climb from Norwalk to ‘The Hat City,’ 397 feet above sea level.” – James Cameron Continue Reading →
OFF-PEAK only fares remain in effect on all trains, even at rush hour, through the end of this year. Yet the railroad is still selling peak tickets, both on its eTix app and its ticket machines. Why? Continue Reading →