NYCT Reports Most Subway Cars Well Air Conditioned
Posted on August 4th, 2008 by The SUBWAYblogger in Transit Failures
According to the MTA, most subway cars are well air conditioned.
Well, ok then. Thanks for letting me know…I guess?
Wait, wait. Did they just guess at that? Of course not. They commissioned a full scale study. Transit officials inspected 2,666 train cars throughout the system. Of them, 73 cars failed.
It appears that the pass/fail mark was [...]
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Is it the beginning of the end?
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by The SUBWAYblogger in Transit Failures
I’m about one or two more back to back track fires away from taking cover in a bunker somewhere. Seriously. Things over the past couple weeks are just getting crazy.
It all started with summer showing up light a white hot freight train. For weeks, we enjoyed beautiful mid 70’s each day. Then, overnight it was [...]
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- Tags: bullshit, fires, heat index, mass transit, mta, new york city transit, nyc, path t, scaffolding, subway, subway system, tornado, trains, transit
