NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Seating areas at New Haven Union Station are expected to be reopened today (Tuesday, April 25) after being shut down Monday following a report of bed bugs in the waiting room.
The New Haven Parking Authority, which operates the station, conducted a deep cleaning with chemicals and compounds on Sunday night and was repeating the process on Monday, WVIT-TV reports. Parting Authority Executive Director Douglas Hausladen told the station the surfaces involved are hard “so they’re easy to clean and treat. And there shouldn’t be any concern to the traveling public going forward.”
The station remained open during the cleaning process.
The station, opened in 1920, is one of the busiest in the Amtrak network, with more than 600,000 riders in fiscal 2022, It is also used by CTRail’s Hartford Line and Shore Line East commuter operation, and the MTA’s Metro-North Railroad.
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