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The NYPD recommended that people visiting NYC for New Year's take public transportation, but early this morning, about some passengers on Metro-North got to welcome a little 2009 commuter frustration. The AP reports, "About 150 passengers have been rescued from two disabled commuter trains coming from New York that lost heat and electricity in a nearly three-hour ordeal" that started at 3:40 a.m. It's believed "several thousand feet of overhead wires that send power to the trains became entangled and torn, cutting off power" to the trains between Bridgeport and Stratford. And because it took some time to lift and secure the wires, the rescue didn't start until 6:25 a.m.
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Happy New Year!
How many of those 150 passengers were drunk? The only time of the year Metro North runs trains all night and there are problems. How ironic.
Ouch- the rescue didn't start until 6.25?!
For years to come, when the people who were stuck on this train are in a group of party-goers trading New Year's Eve stories, the night will end with someone clutching onto the person who first volunteered their story and saying, "NEVER, EVER do that again."
Man, what a drag that must have been.
Luckily, I was doing a reverse commute, back to Manhattan from a gig in Greenwich at 2:30 and the train was on time, had a surprisingly small number of obnoxious drunks, and when offered a ticket, the conducter replied "Happy New Year".
Got me back home in time to catch the last song and encores from "Mr Brownstone" at the Mercury Lounge.
Happy New Year indeed.
If this was LIRR they'd still be stuck.