NYC’s new high-tech MTA subway cars
are already out of service
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 10/28/2023 10:29:05 AM
The MTA’s rollout of its multibillion-dollar fleet of new subway cars has gone off-track. The agency confirmed this week it was pulling six of the seven ballyhooed R211 rail cars out of service due to equipment problems — just months after the high-tech trains were unveiled. The shiny new subway cars — which feature wider doors, security cameras and digital displays — had issues including leaky gearboxes that can cause a train’s wheels to lock up and drag along the rails. A video posted online shows one of the new trains apparently affected by the mechanical issue loudly clanging its way through the Nostrand Avenue station on Oct. 21.
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Last week - - I recommended that the NYC Transit Authority should be put in charge of the Hamas tunnels - - which would then become useless in a matter of weeks. Now do you see what I meant?