With snow on the forecast, New Yorkers on Friday were concerned not only with roads, but with mass transit as well, Magee Hickey of CBS2 reports:

Transit officials were promising to do things right this time around, claiming to have a distinctly different approach to Friday ‘s storm, compared to last month’s blizzard, which was one disaster after another.

Outdoor sections of subways in all five boroughs were buried in snow. Hundreds of buses were stuck in snowbanks on City streets while three A trains with passengers were stranded for hours.

In the blizzard, the MTA used a wait-and-see attitude, keeping its trains and staff off the clock and waiting until the blizzard was well underway to declare a Winter Operations Plan 4, the highest level.

So they didn’t have the manpower to clear the railyards of snow and de-ice third rails.

This time around, transit officials started Plan 4 Thursday, more than a day before the snow. City buses on the overnight shift and those big accordion buses already are supposed to have chains on their tires. All weekend construction projects were canceled.

Several subway train lines will be running local on various sections of their routes Friday.

Eight additional LIRR trains were being added for the afternoon commute between 2:10 p.m. and 3:48 p.m. – three on the Babylon Branch, three on the Port Jefferson Branch and one each on Port Washington and Far Rockaway lines.

(Source: WCBSTV)