One day after Ida, Metro-North resumes service in Connecticut

The Metropolitan Transit Authority said train service should be fully restored to the entire New Haven line on Friday — one day after the remnants of Ida disrupted transit across the region.

The line, which stretches from New Haven to Grand Central Terminal, is a major thoroughfare into the city for commuters in Connecticut’s three largest cities.

Trains will be operating on an “enhanced weekend schedule,” the transit authority said in a statement. Service on the Danbury and New Canaan branches is not expected to be back up on Friday. Substitute buses for the Waterbury branch, which had already been running for ongoing infrastructure work, will resume, the MTA said.

Grand Central Station reopened Friday morning. MTA officials said they anticipate restoring the Harlem line as far as Southeast station in Westchester County.

Crews worked to clear flooding and mudslides and remove downed trees and debris throughout Thursday, the MTA said. The efforts included removing water at what the agency said were two “critical substations” that allow the transit system to run electric service.

“Our crews have made extraordinary progress over the last 24 hours in extremely difficult conditions following unprecedented rainfall throughout the region,” Catherine Rinaldi, president of MTA Metro-North Railroad, said in a statement.

The MTA said mudslides and high water had the most impact between Rye, N.Y., and Norwalk.

Service on the MTA’s Hudson line will remain suspended.

Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media Water is pouring onto a damaged roadway on North Water Street in the Byram section of Greenwich underneath the Metro-North tracks on Thursday morning. The overnight storm was the remains of Ida.