{"id":143142,"date":"2026-02-23T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143142\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:14:15","slug":"travel-nightmare-for-nyc-commuters-may-extend-to-tuesday-as-blizzard-pounds-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143142\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel nightmare for NYC commuters may extend to Tuesday as blizzard pounds Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"

The worst of the snowfall in and around New York City<\/a> was winding down Monday, but the odds for a workable Tuesday morning commute<\/a> remained unclear for Long Island and New Jersey straphangers reliant on commuter rail.<\/p>\n

Metro-North service \u2014 which continued with delays through Monday\u2019s storm \u2014 was expected to continue into Tuesday on a slightly modified schedule.<\/p>\n

But Tuesday service on the Long Island Rail Road, which had been suspended systemwide in the early hours of the storm, remained unclear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to wait for things to slow down on Long Island \u2014 where the winds have continued and the accumulation has continued \u2014 before we can safely set a time for the resumption of service,\u201d MTA chairman Janno Lieber said at a winter storm briefing Monday.<\/p>\n

\"PlatformPlatform and train tracks of the Long Island Rail Road Rosedale Train Station platform in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are planning to run some service on Long Island tomorrow, but exactly how much is a work in progress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lieber added the railroad has been using work trains to clear snow on the LIRR, as well as running empty trains to keep the tracks clear of ice.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, across the Hudson, riders saw minor signs of thaw as NJ Transit announced<\/a> that the Newark and Hudson-Bergen Light Rail lines would resume service late Monday \u2014 the Newark Light Rail at 4 p.m., and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"PlatformPlatform and train tracks of the Long Island Rail Road Rosedale Train Station platform in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

But the Garden State\u2019s bus and commuter rail services remained suspended until further notice, spelling yet more uncertainty for Tuesday morning commuters.<\/p>\n

Inside the five boroughs, Subways continued to run on Monday, albeit with delays as crews across the system had to manually clear snow from switches and red-signal trip-stops.<\/p>\n

Service on the Rockaway Shuttle resumed around noon after an early-morning power outage on the peninsula played havoc with the shuttle\u2019s signals. The Staten Island Railway, however, remained closed Monday afternoon, due to wind and snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The worst of the snowfall in and around New York City was winding down Monday, but the odds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[85,267,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,608,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-143142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-transportation","18":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}