What you should know
- Train services on the 1, 2 and 3 lines in Manhattan have fully returned to normal days after two trains collided at the 96th Street subway station Thursday afternoon, causing a derailment and injuring more than 20 people. with minor injuries.
- The MTA said Sunday morning that service on those three subway lines was fully restored in Manhattan after we “safely moved two derailed trains and repaired the tracks at 96 St.”
- Federal transportation safety investigators began reviewing all New York City subway operations in response to the collision, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Friday. The cause remains under investigation.
NEW YORK — Train service on the 1, 2 and 3 lines in Manhattan has returned to full normal days after two trains collided at the 96th Street subway station Thursday afternoon, causing a derailment and leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries.
The MTA said Sunday morning that service on those three subway lines was fully restored in Manhattan after we “safely moved two derailed trains and repaired the tracks at 96 St.”
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1/2/3 service has been fully restored through Manhattan after we safely moved two trains that derailed and repaired the tracks at 96 St.
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1 service has resumed between South Ferry and Van Cortlandt Park – 242 St in both directions.2:
2 service has resumed between Flatbush… pic.twitter.com/hEszSGeaDP— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) January 7, 2024
The announcement came hours after Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit would resume full subway service on lines 1, 2, and 3 after removing the two crashed trains in the street subway tunnel. 96, repairs to the tunnel tracks and third rail, and a safety inspection of the tunnel area.
“MTA crews have worked diligently for two nights and two days to secure the 96th Street Tunnel infrastructure for safe use,” said Governor Hochul. “With the full restoration of service, hundreds of thousands of riders on the west side of Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn will once again be able to ride the 1 2 3 lines to get to work, school and see friends and loved ones.”
HOW IS THE INVESTIGATION GOING AND WHAT HAPPENED?
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSD) sent a federal team Friday morning to investigate the incident that led to disruptions in service on some subway lines into the weekend.
Federal transportation safety investigators began reviewing all New York City subway operations in response to the collision, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Friday.
Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the NTSB was concerned about this week’s collision between two trains, which was the second serious subway episode in Manhattan in just over a month. On November 29, an MTA subway worker was dragged under a train and killed while working as a rail safety signalman.
“This is the second accident on New York City public transportation property in 37 days. That’s not typical,” Homendy said at a news conference at the station. 96th Street, where Thursday’s collision occurred. “The NTSB has been very focused on system security…so coming here we’re going to want to look at the entire system, including how it’s managed and monitored.”
Homendy said later Friday that the NTSB typically reviews all of a company’s operations and safety protocols in its investigations.
Pat Warren, MTA safety director, said the agency was aware of the NTSB’s comprehensive approach.
“For a subway system that schedules 2.7 million train trips a year, covering 345 million miles a year, this derailment was a rare event that points to the safety and resilience of transit in New York,” Warren said in a statement. released on Friday night.
The low-speed accident on the Upper West Side took place around 3:00 p.m. on lines 1, 2 and 3. Homendy said an out-of-service train with some MTA workers on board collided with another train carrying about 300 passengers on a detour, causing both trains to derail.
Workers on the out-of-service train were making repairs after someone pulled several emergency stop cables. After resetting most of the brakes and disabling others, workers were trying to get the train to the 240th Street rail terminal when the collision occurred, Homendy said.
There were no early indicators of a cause, he said.
Asked if there were traces of human error, Homendy said it was still unclear, but added: “It’s easy to blame humans. “Human error is a symptom of a system that needs to be redesigned.”
Earlier in the day, New York City Transportation President Richard Davey said the passenger train had the green light to move forward Thursday, but the disabled train did not. “As a result, it collided with the train,” he said. “Why, we don’t know, that’s still under investigation.”
Homendy said the subway system does not have cameras or data recorders that could help investigators. He said the NTSB recommended such devices nationally to another federal agency in 2015, but the proposal has not been approved, so the devices are not needed.
After the incident, crews made substantial progress overnight and over the weekend to get three cars that had gone off the tracks back on track. The train that had been in service with passengers was removed Friday, and the wrecked train without passengers that also derailed was removed early Saturday. Crews then made all necessary repairs to the tracks and tunnel infrastructure north of 96 Street to allow full restoration of service on lines 1 2 3. Power was restored to all tracks and test trains operated no problems on the west side section of lines 1, 2, 3, at 10:00 pm Saturday night.
Please note that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation into the cause of the derailment remains ongoing.
HAVE OTHER ACCIDENTS LIKE THIS OCCURRED IN THE PAST?
Derailments and accidents on the 119-year-old New York City subway system are rare. The worst accident in the city’s subway history occurred on Nov. 1, 1918, when a speeding train derailed in a sharply curved tunnel in Brooklyn, killing at least 93 people.
More recently, five people died on August 28, 1991, when a 4 train derailed at Manhattan’s 14th Street Union Square station. The engineer of that train was convicted of alcohol intoxication and served 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
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