Yesterday's subway outage

[avram]

Gothamist has the skinny on yesterday’s Lex line power outages:

The 7AM power outage may have been caused by an A/C power issue at Grand Central, which then caused a signal problem. Then some other circuits blew, and when the MTA put in temporary cable, it shorted out and caused an afternoon power outage. Finally, at around 5:50PM, the MTA found a 2' by 3' hole in a manhole near the 33rd Street station, where water and salt had corroded through the subway's concrete ceiling.

bugsybanana got caught in this and kept me waiting in front of the Astor Place Starbucks for 20 minutes last night, while I got to watch transit workers come out and put an out-of-service sign on the subway entrance, which many would-be passengers ignored. The guy handing out free copies of some new magazine kept telling them “No service”, but they’d already put his voice into their mental ignore box.

Today there seems to be something wrong with the 7 line. Makes me glad to take the PATH.

Comments

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Jesus.

One of these days they're just going to have to shut the whole system down and rebuild it. (I don't want to be here when it happens, of course.) Annabelle told me stories about the MTA that made we wonder why it works at all.