MTA Adding Early Getaway Trains Friday For Memorial Day Weekend

With Memorial Day weekend coming up, the MTA is adding extra trains Friday, May 24 to help commuters get an early start to the three-day holiday weekend. On Memorial Day, trains will operate on reduced schedules because ridership is found to be well below normal weekday levels.

For Friday, May 25, Metro-North Railroad will be adding 17 extra afternoon trains departing Grand Central Terminal between 12:58 p.m. and 4:11 p.m, according to the railroad.

Some trains between 5:18 p.m. and 7:28 p.m. will be canceled and combined due to reduced ridership during that time period.

All extra and canceled trains are shown in the current timetable, Metro-North said.

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For Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26, a regular weekend schedule will be in effect.

For Monday, May 27 — Memorial Day — a Sunday schedule will be in effect on the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines.

Most connecting ferry and bus services will not operate on Memorial Day. However, the Hudson Link bus service will operate on a Saturday schedule.

For the complete schedule of Memorial Day weekend changes, go here.

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