The Connecticut Department of Transportation completed the $10 million upgrade to the New Haven Line of the Metro-North commuter train system, giving east- and westbound lines a full back-up power redundancy system.
The project was designed to prevent the type of failure that occurred in the fall in New York, which disrupted the New Haven Line service. The upgrade also allows the line to add more service in the future.
In the project, Berlin electric utility Connecticut Light & Power installed new transformers to replace aging ones in Greenwich. The capacity of the west line increases from 16 megawatts to 30 megawatts while the east line remains the same.
Metro-North operates the New Haven Line for the DOT. The line is the busiest train commuter line in the world.
