Tuesday marks the first work day since Amtrak shifted rail traffic from the 115-year-old bridge in the Northeast Corridor to a track that crosses the new Portal North Bridge over the Hackensack River. Train capacity is cut by more than half as NJ Transit operates with significantly fewer trains due to the project. Rail traffic between Newark and Seacacus is being funneled into only one track, which is meant to withstand trains in both directions.
Nearly a week after it was first opened, service on Line 6 has resumed after it was yet again partially shut down on Saturday. Service between Finch West and Tobermory stations stopped twice at two different intervals due to a mechanical problem, according to TTC Service Alerts on social media. The first stoppage took place around 8:50 a.m. and resumed 20 minutes later, while the second occurred around 11:45 a.m. only to be fixed about 25 minutes later.
Around 10 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it was "continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal." Other platforms that experienced outages Tuesday included the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody's credit ratings service. Moody's website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed individuals to visit Cloudflare's website for more information. New Jersey Transit said parts of its digital services including njtransit.com, may be temporarily unavailable or slow to load.
In 2024, Liverpool Street shut for eight days between Christmas and the New Year, and this year it's been confirmed that the hub - which is Britain's busiest train station - will shut for exactly the same amount of time. Network Rail has revealed that Liverpool Street will close between Christmas Eve and January 2, impacting services like the Weaver line and Stansted Express, as well as routes operated by Greater Anglia and c2c.
Alaska Airline wrote on its X account that the outage is at the heart of problems affecting their systems, including check-in services. Microsoft's Azure troubles came just hours before the company was set to release its quarterly earnings report, and just over a week after a massive outage of Amazon's cloud computing service took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.
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G train riders in Brooklyn and Queens will experience service disruptions starting Monday, with no service between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avenues on select weeknights and weekends.
