The latest in the decline of NYC. Both likely the result of hiring on the government mandateed criteria of diversity rather than competence.


Computer failure cripples several New York City subway lines
Updated on: July 20, 2019 / 10:20 AM / CBS/AP

New York — About a third of New York City's subway lines were suspended for more than an hour during Friday's hot evening commute, and the head of the city's Transit Authority acknowledged that the agency "did not know exactly where our trains were." A computer system failure that resulted in the snafu stranded some passengers underground and sent others searching for alternate ways home.

The stoppage affected the No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 trains that serve swaths of Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. It also halted the S shuttle train that links Grand Central Terminal and Times Square — two of the city's busiest stations.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) warned that there would still be "extensive delays" in the system, which serves more than 5 million people per day, even after service began to resume Friday night.

The agency blamed the suspension on a failure in the computer system that powers the signals on those lines. Spokesman Tim Minton said in an emailed statement that there is no indication the stoppage was related to a loss of power or to the heat.

The president of the New York City Transit Authority, Andy Byford, later told reporters that the signal failure meant "we did not know exactly where our trains were, so for safety reasons, we had to ask all trains, to instruct all trains to stop where they were, to maintain their positions while we ascertained what exactly was going on such that we could safely move trains out."

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It was the second time in the past week that New York subway riders got stuck underground. Last Saturday, a power outage that stretched across 30 Manhattan blocks from the Upper West Side to Times Square left passengers stranded till trains were manually moved into stations and doors opened. The outage was blamed on a system that failed to isolate a faulty distribution cable.

First published on July 20, 2019 / 8:31 AM

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-subway-...mta-2019-07-20/