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01-25-05, 08:48 AM
'C' SICKNESS ON THE SUBWAY (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/39314.htm) (worst headline ever)
A fire in a subway control room has put the C line out of service for up to five years and caused serious problems on the A line that will make the commute miserable for hundreds of thousands of subway riders, officials said yesterday. The unstaffed room containing 600 electrical devices called "relays" that are used to power signals and switches along a segment of the vital Eighth Avenue line were destroyed Sunday in the blaze.
Cops blamed a vagrant who set a shopping cart full of wood blocks ablaze six feet into the tracks at the Chambers Street station. Cops are searching for the derelict.
...The fire forced the TA to indefinitely cut C train service — which runs from 168th Street in Manhattan to Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn and has 110,000 daily riders — as well as convert A trains into locals for much of the day.
Service on the A — which has 470,000 daily riders and runs from 207th Street in Inwood in upper Manhattan to the Rockaways and Ozone Park in Queens — was cut by nearly 66 percent yesterday.
Reuter said suspending the C is a "long-term problem" that could take an estimated three to five years to fix and cost "several millions of dollars" because new equipment has to be built from scratch.
...Most of the destroyed equipment dated back to the 1930s, when the city-owned Independent Rapid Transit Railroad was built. Reuter said the Chambers Street blaze is worse than the 1999 fire at a control room at the Bergen Street station on the F and G lines in Brooklyn and the most serious damage to subway equipment since 9/11.
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well, I guess there goes all that money from this last fare hike, right out the window.
guess they'll have to raise the fare again just to break even!
Combined with this shyte weather, the trains have been double-packed too...can't wait for the roads to clear up just a little bit. What a nightmare!
A fire in a subway control room has put the C line out of service for up to five years and caused serious problems on the A line that will make the commute miserable for hundreds of thousands of subway riders, officials said yesterday. The unstaffed room containing 600 electrical devices called "relays" that are used to power signals and switches along a segment of the vital Eighth Avenue line were destroyed Sunday in the blaze.
Cops blamed a vagrant who set a shopping cart full of wood blocks ablaze six feet into the tracks at the Chambers Street station. Cops are searching for the derelict.
...The fire forced the TA to indefinitely cut C train service — which runs from 168th Street in Manhattan to Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn and has 110,000 daily riders — as well as convert A trains into locals for much of the day.
Service on the A — which has 470,000 daily riders and runs from 207th Street in Inwood in upper Manhattan to the Rockaways and Ozone Park in Queens — was cut by nearly 66 percent yesterday.
Reuter said suspending the C is a "long-term problem" that could take an estimated three to five years to fix and cost "several millions of dollars" because new equipment has to be built from scratch.
...Most of the destroyed equipment dated back to the 1930s, when the city-owned Independent Rapid Transit Railroad was built. Reuter said the Chambers Street blaze is worse than the 1999 fire at a control room at the Bergen Street station on the F and G lines in Brooklyn and the most serious damage to subway equipment since 9/11.
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well, I guess there goes all that money from this last fare hike, right out the window.
guess they'll have to raise the fare again just to break even!
Combined with this shyte weather, the trains have been double-packed too...can't wait for the roads to clear up just a little bit. What a nightmare!