{"id":250730,"date":"2026-06-01T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250730\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:00:10","slug":"nj-transit-wire-issues-cause-up-to-60-minute-delays-at-penn-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250730\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Transit: Wire issues cause up to 60-minute delays at Penn Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NJ_Transit_engineers_in_training_0_7226318_ver1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK CITY &#8211; Commuters traveling between New Jersey and New York City are facing major disruptions Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Due to Amtrak overhead wire issues inside the Hudson River Tunnels, NJ TRANSIT has announced severe delays and service diversions affecting thousands of riders.<\/p>\n<p> Service impacts  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NJ Transit says to expect delays of up to 60 minutes for trains traveling into and out of New York Penn Station.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">All Midtown Direct rail service is currently being diverted to Hoboken Terminal instead of continuing to New York.<\/p>\n<p> Alternate travel <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">To help commuters reach their destinations, NJ TRANSIT rail tickets and passes are being cross-honored across multiple transit systems. You can use your current rail ticket or pass at no additional cost on the following services:<\/p>\n<p> NJ TRANSIT buses Private carrier busesPATH trains Valid cross-honoring locations: Hoboken TerminalNewark Penn Station33rd Street Station (New York) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Visit <a class=\"ng-star-inserted\" href=\"https:\/\/njtransit.com\/ABC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">njtransit.com\/ABC<\/a> for information on available alternate service routes and ongoing updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by NJ Transit.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/nj-transit\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NJ Transit<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK CITY &#8211; Commuters traveling between New Jersey and New York City are facing major disruptions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,12,17250,56,63,848,618],"class_list":["post-250730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nj-transit","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-organization","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250730","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=250730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}