This is a wakeup call on Homeland Security funding for NYC. First reported yesterday by BTF in
NYC loses a subway line. NYT has updated with more
details of the damage:
- C Local line is gone for 3-5 years
- A Express line runs local at 1/3 capacity (up to 18min wait vs normal 6min max wait)
- 1/9 and 2/3 will be crowded by overflow from A/C
- cost: "several millions of dollars and several years"
- only two companies in the world can repair the signals: one in Pittsburgh, the other in Paris.
Dozens of signal relay rooms like the one destroyed on Sunday are scattered throughout the 722-mile subway system, and it is impossible to fireproof them
If the NYC subway signal rooms were not previously an Al Qaeda target, they are now (global vulnerability publication). It is time for the Dept. of Homeland Security to step up to the plate. NYC can't handle the loss of additional subway lines.
The only evidence of the perpetrator is a shopping cart and wood remnants.
Update [2005-1-25 3:59:5 by dotpeople]: Photo added after break.
more pics from ABC7.
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