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All remaining New York City Subway service was suspended from 10:20 a.m. to 12:48 p.m. [2] Immediately after the attacks and more so after the collapses of the Twin Towers, many trains running in Lower Manhattan lost power and had to be evacuated through the tunnels. Some trains had power but the signals did not, requiring special operating ...
Tunnels flooded by Hurricane Sandy. The 14th Street Tunnel shutdown (also referred to as the L Project, the L train shutdown, or the Canarsie Tunnel reconstruction) was the partial closure and reconstruction of the New York City Subway's 14th Street Tunnel that took place from April 2019 to April 2020.
Power to the third rail was shut off after a shoe beam on a train approaching Whitehall Street fell and caused a short circuit, stranding ten subway trains inside the tunnel. [9] In late 1960, the New York City Transit Authority voted to allot $300,000 for upgrades to the Montague Street Tunnel's ventilation shafts. [10]
A sign reads "No Entrance To Tunnel" following the closure of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in New York City, on Sept. 4, 2024. ... two-way traffic while the southbound tunnel is closed,” an EDC ...
The 179th Street ramp will be closed from Tuesday, Sept. 3, through Thursday, Sept. 5, from 10 p.m. each night to 5 a.m. the following morning. ... New York-bound traffic in the south tube will ...
The MTA claims the tolls are necessary to reduce pollution caused by gridlock and to raise $15 billion for mass transit upgrades, such as extending the Second Avenue subway, signal improvements ...
Rutgers Street Tunnel: 1936 trains: 14th Street Tunnel: 1924: train: East River Tunnels: 1910: 1,204 m (3,949 ft) part of the New York Tunnel Extension Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road (Northeast Corridor) Queens–Midtown Tunnel: 1940: 1,955 m (6,414 ft) 4 lanes of I-495 (Long Island Expressway) Steinway Tunnel: 1915 trains: 53rd Street Tunnel ...
When the 14th Street Tunnel shutdown started in April 2019, weekend and weekday evening M service (from 11:00 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.) was extended from Essex Street to 96th Street on the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan, via 63rd Street, to compensate for limited L service between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The M had to run to 96th Street because of ...