{"id":84921,"date":"2020-10-08T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-subway-commute-plagued-by-delays-as-riders-gripe-over-crowds\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:24:26","slug":"nyc-subway-commute-plagued-by-delays-as-riders-gripe-over-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-subway-commute-plagued-by-delays-as-riders-gripe-over-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC subway commute plagued by delays as riders gripe over crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC subway commute plagued by delays as riders gripe over crowds<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Crowded, late subways are back \u2014 now with the added threat of a pandemic.<\/p>\n

Delays on at least seven lines led to dangerously-crowded trains Thursday morning, straphangers reported.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the delays stemmed from a signal malfunctions at the West Fourth Street and 34th Street-Herald Square stations, which impacted the A, C, E, B, D, F and M lines, the MTA said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is 9 am today on the F train,\u201d Twitter<\/a> user Ridwana Islam posted along with a photo of a rush hour train with at least one person not wearing a mask, in violation of MTA rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople aren\u2019t even wearing masks correctly! How do you expect to reduce the spread of COVID if there\u2019s no improvement to Mass Transit?!\u201d Islam posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another commuter, Savannah, who declined to give her last name, told The Post her D train was waylaid just outside Broadway-Lafeyette station, and straphangers had to file to the front car in order to exit.<\/p>\n

With the D, B, F and M all out of commission, Savannah opted to take the 6 train. She said her normally 45 minute-long commute from Chinatown to Astora took an hour and a half.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am more app<\/a>rehensive about taking the 6 \u2014 I\u2019ve heard it gets really packed and gets really tight,\u201d she said, \u201cbut I had no option.\u201d<\/p>\n

MTA spokesman Shams Tarek said equipment failures began at 6:35 a.m., and were fixed by 9:02 a.m.<\/p>\n

Tarek said the incident was \u201crare,\u201d and under investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmergency crews responded immediately to this morning\u2019s issues, working through the busiest time of day to restore service as quickly as possible,\u201d Tarek said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s packed commute on the subway in NYC<\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe fact that incidents like this are rare is a testament to the significant strides made in subway reliability over the past few years and we thank our customers for their patience while we fixed this morning\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subway ridership plummeted to 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels in March and April. It has rebounded but remains well below where it stood before COVID-19, when delay-induced crowding was a nearly-daily experience for most commuters. Daily train trip<\/a>s currently average around 1.7 million, according to MTA stats \u2014 compared to over 5 million before coronavirus.\n <\/p><\/div>\n