MTA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 service restored after ‘highly unusual’ signal outage

Subway station
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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Trains on six subway lines were held in stations across Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx Saturday morning amid a technical problem, the MTA said.

Crews restored service on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 lines after a “troubleshooting a network communications issue” caused widespread commuter problems around 10:30 a.m. Trains were held in stations along the six lines for at least a half hour.

By 11:20 a.m., the MTA said some trains were moving again as crews "restore our connections with the system facilitating train movement on numbered lines."

This morning around 10:30, a temporary loss of signal controls affected the numbered lines (1-6). While we worked to troubleshoot, trains were directed to remain at stations or move into the nearest station under the guidance of Rail Control Center supervisors when safe.

— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 6, 2019

Service was fully restored to trains in all three boroughs by 12:15 p.m. 

"Trains are resuming their planned service but please expect longer travel times as we recover from a very disruptive outage," the MTA said.

The agency said it's working to determine the cause and that "we deeply apologize to our customers."

"Our ongoing work to modernize the signaling system will help ensure these types of failures do not occur again," the MTA tweeted.

The MTA had been advising 1, 2, 3 riders to take the A, C of E lines for service and 4, 5, 6 riders to take an M101, 102 or 103 bus.

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