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Fire Cripples 2 Subway Lines

By SEWELL CHAN

A fire that began with a homeless person trying to keep warm by
igniting wood and refuse in a shopping cart has crippled two of the
city's subway lines, which might not be restored to normal capacity
for three to five years, officials said today.

The Sunday afternoon blaze in Lower Manhattan was described as the
worst damage to subway infrastructure since the terror attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. It gutted a locked room that is no larger than a
kitchen but contains some 600 relays, switches and circuits that
transmit vital information about train locations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/nyregion/24cnd-subw.html?ex=1264309200&en=c7f461da45001c59&ei=5090

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This could be retitled 'Our Crumbling
Infrastructure', and it is an excellent example of how things which
were built in our nation's past no longer can be maintained without a
lot of expense (which we do not have) and hassle. If you wish to read
the entire New York Times report (on line here at
http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/nytimes.html or the above link
supplied by Monty) you'll see that the transit people in New York have
decided to abandon the 'C' line entirely as a result of the fire, and
'stretch out and smooth over' service on a couple of other lines to
make up for this latest disaster. They are saying the required parts
to rebuild what was lost in the fire are only produced at two
companies, both in other countries, and it will take months just to
get the parts. Of course, they could not have asked for better weather
to make people walk several more blocks or miles to get a train, which
will be more crowded than ever before, and less frequent than in the
past. Very, very sad. PAT]

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