Transit agencies in the New York City area were promising a fairly smooth commute with some lingering delays on Tuesday, the morning after heavy rain pummeled the region, flooding parts of the subway system, inundating major roads and causing long flight delays.
There were no active alerts for most of New York City’s subway lines on Tuesday morning, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s website. Flash floods inundated multiple subway stations on Monday night, sending water gushing down staircases and into subway cars.
Metro-North Railroad said on social media that service in and out of Grand Central Station had been restored after the flooding disrupted rush hour Monday evening. “Expect residual delays as we work to get train service back on schedule,” it said.
NJ Transit’s trains were running largely on time, according to its website. While most of the buses between New Jersey and New York were scheduled to run on time as well, at least four bus lines were either taking detours or delayed because of flooding.
PATH trains, which run between Manhattan and New Jersey, seemed to be operating normally.
Amtrak, which had delays and cancellations because of the weather on Monday, did not announce any major delays on Tuesday morning along its Northeast Corridor, which runs from Virginia to Maine.
As of early Tuesday morning, much of the Mid-Atlantic remained under severe weather warnings.
Claire Moses is a Times reporter in London, focused on coverage of breaking and trending news.
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