Mon 24 Mar 2008
New MTA Timetable: Hudson Line Cements Favorite Son Status
Posted by TJ under Harlem Line, Hudson Line, Stamford
The Hudson Line, the darling of the Metro-North trinity, gets a whopping 41 more trains each week when the spring timetable goes into action April 6.
All told, Metro-North is adding an extra 67 trains each week to keep up with growing–and changing–rider demand.
Besides those sweet river views, the Hudson Line gets 21 additional weekend trains, including a pair of Upper Hudson “Saturday Only” expresses leaving from Poughkeepsie and Grand Central.
As defits its middle-child status, Harlem Line gets 16 new trains, including an early morning express out of North White Plains at 5:55. (North White at 6 in the morning…is there a more depressing thought?)
The 7:52 p.m. out of Grand Central now goes express from White Plains to Chappaqua, and the poor suckers in between (North White, Valhalla, dinky little Hawthorne and Pleasantville) will have to wait for the new 7:57.
The black sheep New Haven Line gets mostly lip service with an early morning ride out of Waterbury, Connecticut at 5:57, arriving in Grand Central at 8:18. (Dude, get a job closer to home.)
Finally, the young UBS bucks sentenced to Stamford can be at Jeremy’s Ale House on Fridays by 5 p.m., thanks to a new Stamford express leaving “The City That Works” (yes, Stamford’s actual slogan) at 3:47 and pulling into GCT at 4:41.