Commuter Rail Council Chief: 'Suck It Up'

A Metro-North Railroad train at the Fleetwood station in Mount Vernon, N.Y. - June 12, 2013 (credit: Paul Murnane / WCBS 880)A Metro-North Railroad train at the Fleetwood station in Mount Vernon, N.Y. - June 12, 2013 (credit: Paul Murnane / WCBS 880)
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Metro-North Railroad’s Harlem and New Haven Lines will have fewer trains during rush hour this summer as the MTA takes care of some needed repairs, WCBS 880’s Paul Murnane reported Wednesday.
Metro-North says work on its problem area below Woodlawn, where the tracks often sit in a filthy soup of water and mud, will cancel just two trains during the a.m. rush. That’s out of over 250. Two others will be combined in the morning.
There will be no p.m. rush cancellations.
Other trains will have their schedules stretched by five or six minutes.