Posted on 08/30/2021 7:44:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
NEW YORK -- A momentary power surge disrupted half of the New York City subway system for several hours and stranded hundreds of passengers... affected more than 80 trains on the subway system's numbered lines plus the L train from shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday to about 1:30 a.m.
The restoration of service was delayed because passengers on two of the stuck trains walked out onto the tracks by themselves rather than waiting for Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers to help them...
Con Edison reported losing a feeder “for a short period of time” just before 8:30 p.m. Sunday “that resulted in a voltage dip across New York City.”
A manhole fire Sunday night that was initially thought to be connected to the subway breakdown appears to have been unrelated...
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Atlas Shrugged.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/man-allegedly-derailed-subway-train-after-da-didnt-ask-for-bail-on-prior-case/
or did a work crew leave equipment on the tracks?
https://abc7ny.com/subway-power-outage-a-train-c-mta/2158113/
Approximately 90% of the NYC lines and stations had already been created by two independent subway operators before the subway was “nationalized” by the City in 1940.
The subway system is very old and there is never money to replace or seriously update it-—only money for illegals and to paint “BLM” in front of Trump Tower.
Kaiser Wilhelm’s toonervile Trolly
Apparently, they didn't trust a government agency to help them.
Atlas Shrugged happens when they start with the mandatory vaccines—then the magic happens—the most talented employees (that actually make stuff work) disappear.
Went to NYC last week. It’s falling apart, a mere shadow of its former glory.
Sad.
Haha!
Too bad. So sad.
ISIS guys saying - “did the test work”?
They should connect the subway system up to a windmill. Problem solved.
CME?
“Went to NYC last week. It’s falling apart, a mere shadow of its former glory.”
Far worse is coming. Eric Adams will have a mountain of problems and no money to deal with it.
That’s the legacy of Commie Wilhelm.
Wasn't there a line (in the Galt's Gulch chapter) where John Galt says to Dagny something like "their own systems will turn against them" ?
This may have been caused by a short of the third rail to a non-electrified one by one of the exceptionally large “100-year” rats.
Unrelated, huh.
Just testing the system. Dry run.
There was some kind of solar sometbing this weekend.
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