HOBOKEN — On the day NJ Transit said power for its trains won't be fully restored at Hoboken Terminal for two months, the Port Authority said it is still on track to resume PATH service at the station in "weeks."



NJ Transit executive James Weinstein told the agency's board today that it will take eight to 10 weeks to finish an interim replacement for the destroyed substation.

NJ Transit trains stop at Hoboken Terminal, but the agency's diesel trans run on their own power and the electric-powered trains are currently running on backup generator power.

Port Authority spokesman Ron Marsico said today that despite being located at the same terminal, the PATH train is not on the same power grid as NJ Transit and earlier predictions given at the end of November that it would be a matter of weeks before PATH service is restored still holds.

The NJ Transit station has been operating on generators since it reopened about a week after Hurricane Sandy caused massive flooding in the station.

Port Authority officials say that PATH

employees are working around the clock to clean, replace and

repair electrical equipment, switches, signals and other control and

safety systems damaged by flooding.

PATH service is running a limited service between 33rd Street and Journal Square, and Newark and the World Trade Center between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.

NJ Transit is allowing PATH ticket holders ride free on the Light Rail between Pavonia/Newport in Jersey City and the Hoboken terminal.

The NJ Transit Gladstone branch, which normally runs on electric power, has had to use diesel, which means service on some of the other lines has been cut back to compensate, officials said.

Weinstein said it could take a year or more to finish a permanent substation.