Resumption of service after stopping seven subway lines in New York City

NEW YORK – About a third of New York City's metro lines were suspended for more than an hour during an intense and busy Friday night drive, preventing some pbadengers from going into hiding and firing other people looking for another way to get home.

The judgment concerned trains Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 serving bands in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. It also interrupted the S shuttle train that connects the Grand Central Terminal and Times Square, two of the busiest resorts in the city.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority warned that the system, which serves more than 5 million people a day, would still have significant delays, even after the service resumed Friday night. He attributed the suspension to a network communication problem.

The temperature was still 33 degrees Celsius Friday night at the time of the stop, but meteorologists estimated that it was 100 degrees, leaving runners sweating in stopped trains, closed doors. The blackout occurred as the city prepared for scorching temperatures throughout the weekend.

The MTA officials were not able to immediately determine the cause of the failure, which began around 18 hours.

The public agency that runs the city's metro has urged pbadengers to stay in the cars while teams are working as quickly as possible to get people to the train stations.

At the World Trade Center No. 1 station, an employee issued refund tickets and directed people to other nearby lines. The pbadengers – many of whom were visitors from New York – seemed to follow the changing situation.

"That's about all I expected," said Derek Lloyd of Hanover, Mbadachusetts, near Boston and its transit system. "I do not know if ours is much better," he says with a smile.

On a line on the road, pbadengers in a car did not seem to be air conditioned. Sweat glistened on runners' skin as they sought relief and splintered.

A woman noted, "This is dangerous."

It was the second time of last week that New York subway users were stuck underground. Last Saturday, a blackout extending 30 blocks from Manhattan, from the Upper West Side to Times Square, left the pbadengers stranded until the trains were manually moved into stations and doors are open. The failure was attributed to a system that failed to isolate a faulty distribution cable.