Subway Disruptions Expected to Last Months, Not Years

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Subway Disruptions Expected to Last Months, Not Years
By SEWELL CHAN
and ANDY NEWMAN

Published: January 26, 2005


ransit officials said yesterday that service on the A and C lines could be restored to full capacity in six to nine months, dramatically revising their earlier prognosis that a fire in a Lower Manhattan signaling room would disrupt service on the lines for as long as three to five years.

The new time frame for repairs will still mean months of confusion and inconvenience on two lines that have an average weekday ridership of 580,000, and hardly diminishes how the fire underscored the vulnerability of a signaling system based on electromechanical switches that were first developed in the 1870's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/nyregion/26subway.html?hp&ex=1106715600&en=debe8ba50960ee9e&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Several former transit officials said yesterday that the agency had repeatedly warned over the past 20 years that the signaling system was obsolete or unreliable, but nonetheless chose to devote the vast majority of its limited capital funds to other projects.

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1. Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/nyregion/26subway.html
:hi:

[billyoc]

2. Yeah, that sounds more realistic.

It only took 4 years to *build* the subway system. :)

[FreepFryer]

3. Still, I know someone who rides that line from Battery Park to Harlem.

Crazy that a fire can do that. I think New York needs some Iraqi infrastructure money.