No, not New York - just a CBD blackout

[Nottingham]

No, not New York - just a CBD blackout
By Les Kennedy and Geesche Jacobsen
September 2, 2003



Black Monday . . . police direct traffic on the corner of King and George Streets. Photo: Wade Laube.

At least 50 buildings in Sydney's CBD were blacked out last night following an underground fire in a major electrical substation, causing huge traffic jams as motorists were diverted around the scene.

Many people were trapped in lifts for more than four hours, while others had to wait patiently even longer to be rescued.

The blackout affected a 10-block radius from the Cockle Bay construction site of the Cross City Tunnel exit near Sussex Street. It stretched to parts of Chinatown, and as far as the Town Hall and the Pitt Street Mall.

Police rescue squad officers were called to free people trapped in lifts in six buildings in the first wave of disruptions, which struck at 5.30pm.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/01/1062403457876.html?from=storyrhs

:bounce: Black outs everywhere in the world what coincidence!