Amtrak announced Friday they will restore service between Albany and New York City.

Amtrak will have an almost full restoration of service on the Empire Line, starting Monday, Dec. 2.

Gov. Kathy Hochul called it a huge victory.

Amtrak began reducing service on the Empire Line between Albany and New York City on Nov. 11, when they reduced the number of roundtrips from 13 to 10. That got rid of some popular trains for commuters.

Amtrak announced Friday they will bring that number of roundtrips up to 12.

Bringing back one rush hour train from Albany to New York City and one in the morning from New York City up to Albany. Amtrak also says they will add more train cars to other trains on the line expanding capacity then what it was previously was at before the cuts.

These added trains will last till March 2, which is when construction on those tunnels will begin.

Hear what the commissioner of the Department of Transportation is saying about this by watching the video of Zach Richter’s story.