NyC power surge big train delays Aug. 29

[Trisky]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

All I know is that I've been stuck on a train twice underground, both times for about 2-3 hours, and one time was underground and underwater. In the first instance the train started moving again, next time we had to evacuate (that was the underwater time)

Both times sucked and luckily I was not in need of the restroom either time.

I've been stuck for a couple of hours too, one time I have no idea what the issue was, the other they eventually let us out and I had to find a cab at 4am in the morning. During 9/11 I got stuck in the smoke filled former WTC stop on the A train, on my way home. I got the first train back to Queens when they started running again but we absolutely crawled through those stations downtown.

[BugsyPal]

How things went down...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/n...utage-nyc.html

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by Trisky

I've been stuck for a couple of hours too, one time I have no idea what the issue was, the other they eventually let us out and I had to find a cab at 4am in the morning. During 9/11 I got stuck in the smoke filled former WTC stop on the A train, on my way home. I got the first train back to Queens when they started running again but we absolutely crawled through those stations downtown.

The second time I had to walk through another train and then on the catwalk on the side of the tunnel to get out at High Street

[Aeran]

MTA Power Failure Caused By Someone Who Accidentally Pushed Wrong Button. Doh...!

https://gothamist.com/news/mta-power...ontent=2021910

Last month when hundreds of commuters were stranded and every numbered line and the L went offline for an hour, the MTA was quick to point the finger at Con-Edison, which had experienced a brief power surge that night. But a review by two independent engineering firms finds that someone at the MTA’s Rail Control Center, the nerve center of the MTA, just pushed the wrong button.

It turns out the button’s plastic cover was missing, which may have made it easier to accidentally press this vital power supply button, according to two independent reviews.

While the power outage on August 29th was just over an hour, about 550 passengers on stranded trains had to be evacuated, a process that took four hours. The process was made more challenging when passengers on a couple of trains self-evacuated, which required the MTA to check all the tunnels to ensure everyone was out.