{"id":251054,"date":"2025-09-24T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:17:12","slug":"governor-announces-super-express-train-service-between-poughkeepsie-and-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251054\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor announces \u201cSuper-Express\u201d train service between Poughkeepsie and New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/midhudsonnews.com\/2025\/09\/24\/governor-announces-super-express-train-service-between-poughkeepsie-and-new-york-city\/lee-kyriacou-hochul-m-n-23sep25-700x500\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-264310 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264310\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lee-Kyriacou-Hochul-M-N-23Sep25-700x500-1.jpg\"\/><\/a>Beacon Mayor Lee Kyriacou: \u201cMetro-North is the economic backbone of the Hudson Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Starting on Monday, October 6, Metro-North Railroad will launch its \u201csuper-express\u201d commuter train service between Poughkeepsie and New York City with service in less than 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hochul made the announcement while at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday, also noting service between Beacon and New York will be under 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Beacon City Mayor Lee Kyriacou, who was with the governor in New York, praised the accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetro-North is the economic backbone of the Hudson Valley. It allows working families to earn a living, to raise families, and contribute to their community,\u201d he said. \u201cEven a few minutes makes a difference. It allows you to put your kids to bed, to take a moment to buy flowers at the store behind us for an anniversary, or to get to chair a city council meeting on time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor said the new \u201csuper-express trains will save commuters nearly 15 minutes of travel time every day, giving riders back over an hour a week of their precious time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metro-North President Justin Vonashek said the enhancements \u201cbuild on the railroad\u2019s record-setting reliability with a systemwide on-time performance of 98 percent \u2013 and with more improvement work underway, this is only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beacon Mayor Lee Kyriacou: \u201cMetro-North is the economic backbone of the Hudson Valley.\u201d NEW YORK \u2013 Starting on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10210,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,132910,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-251054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro-north","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-super-express-train","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115259234543720219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}