

View on the map which train you can take.Įric’s Tip:The Hudson Line is one of my favourites. The trains arrive at Spring Valley or Port Jervis in New York State. The Pascack Valley Line and the Port Jervis Line pass a part of New Jersey, making them part of New Jersey Transit.

The Hudson Line, the Harlem Line, and the New Haven Line go east of the Hudson River and in the direction of Stamford in Connecticut and Yonkers and White Plains in New York State.

Metro-North Railroad’s trains are regular trains that stop at each station. Off-peak rates apply at all other times, weekends and public holidays. Or when you arrive at the station between 6:00 AM and 10:00 AM. These peak fares apply on weekdays when you depart from Grand Central between 6:00 AM and 9:00 AM or between 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM. When you want to buy a ticket, you need to know whether you are traveling during peak hours or during off-peak hours. It’s also possible to buy tickets at the red or gray ticket machines. The lines are part of New Jersey Transit, you can purchase your tickets at these counters. When traveling from Penn Station it’s possible to buy your tickets at a counter. Tickets for MNR can be bought at the gray and red machines. The ticket machines are always available. These counters are open from morning to evening. The counters are located on the sides of the iconic terminal, above which it says ‘MTA Metro-North Tickets’. At Grand Central Terminal you can go to a counter or one of the ticket machines. No reservation is required, as is the case with Amtrak. Tickets for Metro-North Railroad can be best bought at the station where you get on. Please note that you have to make a transfer at Secaucus Junction station when traveling on either of these two lines. These lines are an element of New Jersey Transit. These lines allow you to travel, via New Jersey, to the part of New York State northwest of Manhattan. The Hudson Line, the Harlem Line, and the New Haven Line depart from Grand Central and then, via Harlem – 125th Street, head to the north of New York State or Connecticut.įrom Penn Station, it’s possible to take the Pascack Valley Line or the Port Jervis Line.

Ned Lamont has set a lofty goal of reducing “vehicle miles traveled” and greenhouse gas emissions in Connecticut by 5% by 2030. He’s directed CDOT to do this by increasing the frequency of mass transit. The governor is also promoting transit oriented development.Three of the five lines stop at Grand Central Terminal, the other two lines depart from Penn Station. John Rowland) when the subsidy was much, much lower. The death spiral: Reducing train service only sends mass transit into an inevitable “death spiral”: fewer trains discourages ridership… fewer riders equals higher subsidies… leading to more service cuts. As ridership further erodes there will be the inevitable calls for shutting down service completely, which we’ve heard in the past (under Gov. Commuter advocates would argue that one reason ridership hasn’t come back stronger since the pandemic is that service (especially on Shore Line East) wasn’t restored to the old level. They say that the way to cut the subsidy is to increase service and get ridership back. Cutting service, they argue, would only cut passenger loads further, increasing the losses.
