New York City subway train derails in collision with another train, injuring more than 20 people
A New York City subway train derailed Thursday after colliding with another train at low speed, leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries and causing major service disruptions across Manhattan during the afternoon rush hour, authorities said.
At about 3 p.m. on the Upper West Side, a 1 train carrying about 300 passengers and an out-of-service Metropolitan Transportation Authority train with four workers on board hit each other near the 96th Street station, police and transit officials said at the scene. A “derailment” is when at least one wheel of a train leaves the track.
Photos posted on social media by city emergency management officials showed the passenger train partially off the tracks in an area that had a track-switching mechanism. Officials said there were no immediate signs of equipment failure and investigators were seeing if human error was involved.
Honestly why are humans even there to make these decisions? It's a train
IIRC the NY subway is infamous for running on ridiculously outdated, patchwork tech because they aren't allowed to shut down long enough to implement the necessary modern improvements, nor does the MTA get the funds to do so.
There are plenty of subway systems where this could never have happened.
Indeed, the whole system is massively complex and serves a megacity with one of the world's oldest systems 24/7. Maintenance is insanely costly and difficult. It's like repairing airplanes while in flight.
Makes sense for "the city that never sleeps"
Because upgrading to an automated system costs too much.
Not enough money to do it right but enough to do it twice.