[neverdem]

Angel Franco/The New York Times
Passengers crowded trains Monday at the Atlantic Avenue station in Brooklyn.

[Prince Charles]

Two of the city's subway lines - the A and the C - have been crippled and may not return to normal capacity for three to five years after a fire Sunday afternoon in a Lower Manhattan transit control room that was started by a homeless person trying to keep warm, officials said yesterday.

Was the "homeless person" named Mohammed, by any chance?

[zarf]

Ahhh....reminds me of the good old days!

[John Thornton]

"If George W. Bush becomes president, the armies of the homeless, hundreds of thousands strong, will once again be used to illustrate the opposition's arguments about welfare, the economy, and taxation."--Mark Helprin, Oct. 31, 2000

[Investment Biker]

Reminds me of the book by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.

[Cicero]

Oh, terrific. That explains why the A train took such a very long time to get from Penn Station to Broadway-Nassau this afternoon. Plus I noticed bright lights in a control room next to the Chambers Street station and about 20 or 30 hardhats in there working on something.

The train before ours was evidently having problems, so they dumped all the passengers at the Broadway-Nassau station--last stop before Brooklyn--and our already crowded car was overwhelmed with people trying to get on. I was very glad to be getting off there, finally.

I'm really looking forward to half-hour delays every time I take the subway downtown. For five years?

Since Giuliani left office, the homeless people have been moving back into the subway tunnels and stations. Now we see what the results can be. Frankly I expected this to happen earlier, because our new mayor is a cretin. But this is not a good sign.

[Gforce11]

http://us.st8.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/wickedcoolstuff_1826_32300043

[BrooklynGOP]

That's @#$#@#@$@#! I have a job interview on thursday on Broad St!

[Salman]

... started by a homeless person trying to keep warm, officials said yesterday.

This is nonsense. It is very easy to keep warm on the New York subway. All you have to do is get on a train. They are heated.

[chs68]

" It gutted a locked room that is no larger than a kitchen"

If you have ever seen the size of kitchens in some NYC apartments, then you know that this room was truly small, indeed.

[Petronski]

Officials said they believed that there were only two companies in the world that were able to repair the signals. One is based in Pittsburgh, and the other in Paris.

So, does Bloomy go with Pittsburgh or Paris?

[razorback-bert]

Okay, here we go, it is Bush's fault because global warming created the storm, which drove the homeless person to light the fire.

[ken21]

the wall street journal print edition had an excellent editorial on this today!

if there ever were an argument against the democrats, their unions, and their public employees destroying the public good, this is it.