The majority of PATH service between New Jersey and New York Metropolis went down for hours Thursday morning after a monitor hearth in Jersey Metropolis introduced the trains to a halt.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey first introduced scattered delays round 7:30 a.m. after a monitor hearth broke out west of the Grove St. station in Jersey Metropolis.
Trains had been held in place whereas crews labored to extinguish the monitor blaze, and repair resumed shortly earlier than 9 a.m.
Through the outage, just one department of the PATH community — service from Hoboken to thirty third. St. in Manhattan — remained in operation.
NJ Transit rail and bus providers cross-honored PATH tickets systemwide through the hearth, whereas the Hudson-Bergen Mild Rail and New York Waterway additionally honored PATH tickets on choose routes.
Some riders took to social media to precise their frustration. One individual mentioned clients weren’t being allowed right into a station, whereas one other mentioned the 8:56 prepare at NJ Transit was “packed” with PATH commuters.
Round 9 a.m., PATH officers introduced that service had resumed “with residual delays,” and ticket cross-honoring ended at 10 a.m.
Initially Printed: Could 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM EDT
