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The state of emergency ended on June 30, 2021, after previously being renewed 49 times. The bus redesigns, which had been delayed during the pandemic, resumed two months later. The subway system continued to experience difficulties.
On January 4, 2024, a New York City Subway train derailed causing at least 26 people, mostly passengers, to suffer minor injuries. The incident happened when the first car of a 1 train collided with a disabled train that had been vandalized, both consisting of R62As, just north of the 96th Street station. [1]
In 2017, New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA due to various incidents involving the NYCTA's subway and bus systems. At the time, only 65 percent of weekday trains reached their destinations on time, the lowest rate since a transit crisis in the 1970s.
According to the MTA, 6 trains are being delayed as emergency teams respond to the incident, with some running on the express tracks to Grand Central station.
NEW YORK CITY — The MTA suspended service on two subways lines and warned New Yorkers to expect delays on two others because of staffing issues linked to the surge of COVID-19 cases, officials said.
The state of emergency ended on June 30, 2021, after previously being renewed 49 times. As of October 2021, on-time performance across all routes is at 80.6 percent.
In June 2017, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA due to ongoing reliability and crowding problems. This order applied particularly to the New York City Subway, which was the most severely affected by dilapidated infrastructure, causing overcrowding and delays.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend because of coronavirus. Here's what that means.
In the summer of that year, the subway system was officially put in a state of emergency after a series of derailments, track fires, and overcrowding incidents. [316] [318] To solve the system's problems, the MTA officially announced the Genius Transit Challenge on June 28, 2017, where contestants could submit ideas to improve signals ...
As of 2017, some of the oldest block signals in the system were 80 years old, and they broke down frequently, causing more delays and prompting the MTA to declare a state of emergency for the subway in 2017. An MTA investigation found that between December 2017 and January 2018, broken signals caused 11,555 train delays.