For Monday morning commuters, the fallout from Sunday’s deadly Metro-North derailment will be felt far and wide as riders scramble to find alternatives to get to and from work.
The accident, near The Bronx’s Spuyten Duyvill station, forced service to be suspended on the Hudson Line.
With no trains running between Tarrytown and Grand Central Terminal, Metro-North was providing bus service between Tarrytown and the White Plains station, so passengers could take the Harlem Line into Manhattan.
Customers at stations between Irvington and Yankee Stadium-East 153rd Street are urged to use the Harlem Line, NYC Subway and/or bus service. Hudson Line tickets will be cross-honored for those services.
MTA employees braced for what could be chaos during the commute Monday, the first day after the long holiday weekend.
“[Monday] is going to be a mess, with people trying to get to and from work,” one Metro-North employee said.
“The only options are for people to take the bus service or drive to a train line that’s running. It’s going to be a mess.”
Travelers trying to get home from a long holiday weekend said the timing of the derailment couldn’t have been much worse. The accident happened on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
“Customer service has no information,” said Katherine Miller, 27, who was waiting to pick up a friend at Grand Central Station.
“They told me they aren’t sure how people are getting back. Maybe a bus, and they have no idea about times. Thank God my friend is OK.”
“It’s frustrating,” said Stephanie, 21, a junior at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, who came home for Thanksgiving.
Additional reporting by Catherine Zini