{"id":66564,"date":"2026-02-17T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/manhattan-commuters-urged-to-work-from-home-for-weeks-amid-rail-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:03:44","slug":"manhattan-commuters-urged-to-work-from-home-for-weeks-amid-rail-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/manhattan-commuters-urged-to-work-from-home-for-weeks-amid-rail-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan commuters urged to work from home for weeks amid rail upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extensive works on key bridge in New Jersey \u2013 part of $16bn Gateway project \u2013 will disrupt rail services into New York<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-jersey\">New Jersey<\/a>\u2019s transit authority has urged commuters into Manhattan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njtransit.com\/portalcutover\">work from home<\/a> for up to a month if possible because of a huge railroad upgrade that is expected to upend travel to New York City from Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The national rail operator, Amtrak, will move some train traffic on to a new bridge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/02\/17\/nyregion\/nj-transit-amtrak-path-train\">according to the New York Times<\/a>, in a travel-snarling project that is expected to last until 15 March and will result in extensive delays and fewer trains under the Hudson River.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/new-jersey-transit-delays-manhattan-commuters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extensive works on key bridge in New Jersey \u2013 part of $16bn Gateway project \u2013 will disrupt rail services into New York New Jersey\u2019s transit authority has urged commuters into Manhattan to work from home for up to a month if possible because of a huge railroad upgrade that is expected to upend travel to &#8230; <a title=\"Manhattan commuters urged to work from home for weeks amid rail upgrade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/manhattan-commuters-urged-to-work-from-home-for-weeks-amid-rail-upgrade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Manhattan commuters urged to work from home for weeks amid rail upgrade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}