Boarding. Canceled. Canceled. Canceled. On Time. Canceled. … The path to Union Station. Jose Borrero needed to get to Bradley Airport. He was at Union Station Monday afternoon and he had a flight to Puerto Rico in a few hours. His train had been cancelled, and he didn’t know what other de lays would occur as the city and the state navigated the aftermath of a major winter storm. Borrero was one of dozens of travelers at Union Station Monday. He was unlucky; his CTrail train was one of a handful of trips to be cancelled due to Sunday’s snowstorm, which dumped a foot of snow on the Elm City. It was 1 p.m., and Borrero and his cousin and his cousin’s grandson had been at the station since 11 a.m. They were going to take the 11:35 a.m. Hartford Line train with CTrail. Borrero was going to get off in Hartford, while his cousin and her grandson were going to continue to Springfield, Mass., where they needed to get back to their family. But then their train was cancelled. Now, the plan was for Borrero to take a 1:40 p.m. bus to Bradley, while his cousin took an Amtrak to Springfield that was scheduled for 2:50 p.m. If there were any more delays, Borrero worried he would miss his flight. It was scheduled to take off a little before 6 p.m. He needed to make it to San Juan Monday night because he has a flight from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic Tuesday morning. If he missed his flight to San Juan, then he would be stuck in Hartford until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, when the next flight to Puerto Rico was scheduled. He would then miss his flight to the Dominican Republic, where he lives. “It’s a domino effect,” he said. Borrero and his cousin and his cousin’s grandson were in New Haven visiting Borrero’s mom. She lives in Fair Haven, where he grew up. A Wilbur Cross and Connecticut College alum, Borrero now works as a flight attendant. He’s based in Puerto Rico, which he described as the place where he lives and works, while he owns a home in the Dominican Republic. “It’s a little frustrating, but I have nowhere to be. I don’t have to work tomorrow or the next day,” he said Monday. His cousin, on the other hand, needed to get home to Springfield so she could be with her family. Santos Rodriguez’s Shoreline East train home to New London, meanwhile, had been cancelled twice. He had been at Union Station for almost two hours. Rodriguez was in New Haven because he had been visiting New York. “I came at a bad time,” he joked. He was hoping to be able to take a 2:15 p.m. train. “Hopefully it doesn’t get cancelled,” he said, sitting on one of the station’s benches with his earbuds in. Parking Authority of New Haven Executive Director Doug Hausladen, who leads the agency that runs Union and State Street Stations, said that while Metro North train service remained “reliable throughout” and was “reasonably unaffected” by the storm (but did drop to one trip per hour), there were a number of CTrail trips that were cancelled until around 1 p.m. on Monday. Hausladen said that Union Station continued to see hundreds and even thousands of travelers, as is typical. “We were always operational throughout the storm,” he said. Still, some riders struggled for transfers due to the lack of bus service and commercial traffic once they got there. Union Station also doesn’t close overnight when the state enacts its cold weather protocol, and there were people spending the night over the last few days, Hausladen said. Hausladen said that the station’s retail locations did close through the storm for employees’ safety, but travelers made good use of its vending machines. “I’ve never seen the vending machines as used as they have been,” he said. Santos Rodriguez hopes his third train doesn’t get cancelled too. This passenger declined to say where she was headed. The post Post-Storm Train Cancellation Throws Jose’s Flight Plans In Flux appeared first on New Haven Independent. ...read more read less