{"id":357024,"date":"2026-09-25T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357024\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:32:09","slug":"mta-deploying-repair-crews-as-noreaster-heads-toward-nyc-with-close-eye-on-metro-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357024\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA deploying repair crews as Nor’easter heads toward NYC, with close eye on Metro-North"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MTA is dispatching crews to key spots where damaging winds from the incoming Nor\u2019easter could topple trees onto tracks and disrupt service, with a particular eye on the New Haven line of the Metro-North Railroad<\/a>, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now the wind is, by far, our biggest concern,\u201d MTA chairman Janno Lieber said Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrews are being deployed at strategic locations across the entire MTA regional network so they can respond quickly if and when there are any conditions like downed trees,\u201d Lieber said. \u201cWe have debris trains, trucks, chainsaws ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MTA is planning to run service as usual through this weekend\u2019s storm<\/a> \u2014 but is keeping an eye on the winds along above ground subway lines, bridges and commuter rails.<\/p>\n

The Metro North\u2019s\u00a0 proximity to the coast of the Long Island Sound \u2014 combined with the line\u2019s reliance on overhead catenary power lines \u2014 make the route particularly vulnerable to storm damage. Crews are also preparing for potential problems on the low-lying and flood-prone Hudson line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are buses that have been secured to stand by for both of those Metro-North lines,\u201d Lieber said.<\/p>\n

\"MTAMTA chairman Janno Lieber briefing reporters Friday on preparations for the weekend storm on Friday. (Evan Simko-Bednarski \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The potential for high wind conditions also means the agency is banning empty tractor-trailers and tandem-trailer trucks from the bridge crossings it controls, starting Friday at midnight and running through the weekend.<\/p>\n

On the subway system, workers had rolled out some flood mitigation tools at Coney Island and Howard Beach stations, and had begun pre-storm work of covering up system vents and clearing out drainage systems. The threat of high winds meant crews were also on standby to clear downed trees from the tracks on above-ground lines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a well-worn storm playbook,\u201d Lieber told reporters. \u201cWe\u2019ve handled big weather events before and we\u2019re going to do it this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank our employees who are going to put in some long hours \u2014 it\u2019s no secret that one of the reasons we\u2019re about to deal with weather events is we call a lot of people in to make sure that we\u2019re ready and that we can respond promptly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MTA is dispatching crews to key spots where damaging winds from the incoming Nor\u2019easter could topple trees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,56,63,65,64,608],"class_list":["post-357024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357024","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=357024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}