Hochul said that while the cause is still under investigation, there's no indication of any malicious action. “We need to understand how this could happen and how to make sure it does not happen again.” “The good news is that we had a temporary situation, but we need to know more about it,” said de Blasio. The situation is contained and full subway service is coming back, he said. He also said that though many subway riders were inconvenienced, there were no injuries caused by the subway disruptions. In a news conference held hours after the governor’s, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he’s working with the state and MTA leadership to determine what happened because “it is not clear yet-a full investigation is going on.” In her statement later in the day, Hochul said she has directed the MTA "to retain two independent engineering firms to assist in a thorough deep dive of what happened and make recommendations to ensure this does not occur again." "A disruption of this magnitude can be catastrophic and thank God if you think about the time that this happened, it was a time of low ridership, it was on a weekend night, late at night, and I can only imagine how devastating this would've been for thousands of New Yorkers had this occurred during a morning commute like this morning,” Hochul said. She also pointed out how much worse the incident could have been if it had occurred during busier hours. D trains ran slow in both directions because of a. “The MTA is the lifeblood of this city and a disruption of this magnitude can be catastrophic." NEW YORK CITY Mechanical, medical and signal problems caused nine subway lines to run with delays Wednesday morning, according to the MTA. If you're one of those riders or people relying on safe transport, the system failed you,” Hochul said. The governor said she's calling for an investigation into what caused the disruption. “We never ever want riders to do that, it is dangerous and it caused a delay in restoration of power." "We experienced what is known as self-evacuation, where riders decided to leave on their own,” Gov. About 550 riders were evacuated from the system, with roughly 100 of them doing it on their own, the MTA said. The outage affected more than 80 trains overnight. The MTA did say that they have two backup generators for situations like these, but it is unclear why they were not activated. As a result, the major disruption occurred when the batteries ran out at around 9:15 p.m.Īccording to the MTA, an alert system did not notify subway management about the failures, which left officials unaware that batteries were still powering the system. Sunday, but did not switch back to Con Edison's system when power became available. The MTA said Monday afternoon that their system switched to short-term battery power when Con Edison was impacted at around 8:25 p.m. NEW YORK - A power outage shut down service on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and L subway lines Sunday night, stranding hundreds of customers between stations.
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