{"id":109463,"date":"2009-12-23T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amtrak-trains-in-and-out-of-new-york-city-halted-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-23T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T16:25:00","slug":"holiday-travel-nightmare-amtrak-trains-in-and-out-of-new-york-city-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109463","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Travel Nightmare: Amtrak Trains In And Out Of New York City Halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=cd37544bc051b949079f4800\" border=\"0\" alt=\"amtrak tbi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your Christmas travel plans just got screwed.<\/p>\n<p>The AP reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amtrak says power problems have halted trains coming in and out of New York City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amtrak spokesman Clifford Cole says a low voltage problem near North Bergen, N.J., forced the railroad to halt trains into and out of New York&#8217;s Penn Station at around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He says he doesn&#8217;t know what caused the problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">New Jersey Transit spokesman Dan Stessel says trains on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line and Midtown Direct are affected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Some trains are stranded just outside Penn Station. Others are stuck between Newark and New York City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stessel says the trains have enough electricity to power the lights and heat but not the engines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trains and buses run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are honoring New Jersey Transit rail passes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amtrak-trains-in-and-out-of-new-york-city-halted-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/riot-in-delta-terminal-at-jfk-prompts-police-presence-2009-12\">Police Called In To Handle Traveler Riot at JFK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/report-amtrak-loss-comes-to-32-per-passenger-2009-10\">Amtrak Loses $32 Per Passenger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fewer-riders-on-us-amtrak-but-still-2nd-best-year-2009-10\">Amtrak Ridership Drops By A Million Passengers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YLfmn9nriKTY04pZV2g2iAiIAvY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YLfmn9nriKTY04pZV2g2iAiIAvY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YLfmn9nriKTY04pZV2g2iAiIAvY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YLfmn9nriKTY04pZV2g2iAiIAvY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=svAwjowDLJg:726qZL_w6-4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/svAwjowDLJg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Christmas travel plans just got screwed. The AP reports: Amtrak says power problems have halted trains coming in and out of New York City. Amtrak spokesman Clifford Cole says a low voltage problem near North Bergen, N.J., forced the railroad to halt trains into and out of New York&#8217;s Penn Station at around 8:45 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}