A woman steps over the power third rail as the subway is evacuated as power went out Thursday afternoon Aug. 14, 2003, (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A woman steps over the power third rail as the subway is evacuated as power went out Thursday afternoon Aug. 14, 2003, (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
In a statement issued at 6:05 p.m., Alberto Bianchetti, a spokesman for NiMo, said the cause of the power interruption is not known.
“ We are aware of speculation in the media that a failure in the Niagara Mohawk system may have caused the outage. We can’t — repeat, cannot — confirm this,” Bianchetti said.
Detroit Police sit on Woodward and Jefferson in front of General Motors world headquarters, during a power outage August 14, 2003. New Yorkers may have rushed into the streets when a power blackout hit a large swath of eastern North America on Thursday but in Motor City, people mostly headed for their cars. The result was gridlock for thousands of Detroit commuters. Detroit does not have much public transportation aside from buses and a lightly used downtown monorail. So when the power failed in office buildings, people went straight for their cars. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook