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Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by zac on Thu Sep 27 23:01:50 2012

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I entered at the Mulberry St/Houston entrance to take the B, to check out the new transfer, and I saw everybody walking up the new escalator. It hasn't even been 3 full days and it is already non-functioning. Sheesh.

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Sep 28 04:52:16 2012, in response to Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by zac on Thu Sep 27 23:01:50 2012.

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Myabe some vandal push the emergency stop button just before you got there?

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Sep 28 05:35:33 2012, in response to Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Sep 28 04:52:16 2012.

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That would be sabotage, not vandalism.

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Sep 28 06:52:31 2012, in response to Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by zac on Thu Sep 27 23:01:50 2012.

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HAHAHAHA!!! Gotta love the subway....

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Sep 28 07:21:22 2012, in response to Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Sep 28 04:52:16 2012.

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Myabe some vandal push the emergency stop button just before you got there?

A quick check of the MTA's website reveals that the Bleecker St escalator between the northbound (6) platform and the mezzanine is out for repairs. The outage is reported from 9/28/12 6:43am. It is not expected to go back into service until 9/30/12 12:00am.

The original poster recorded the outage on 9/27/12 23:01. There's a gap of nearly 8 hours between when Mr. zac recorded the outage and NYCT's website documents it responded.

I have no idea of the original cause of the escalator's malfunction. Nor do I care to speculate. However, I do believe NYCT's recorded 7+ hour response time is a measure of NYCT's nonfeasance in maintaining the system.

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Sep 28 07:41:02 2012, in response to Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Sep 28 07:21:22 2012.

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Mr. Bauman- seems to me that you're trying to be extra-classy, but you're just as dismayed, but unsurprised as the rest of us that the escalator's OOS almost as soon as the connection opened.

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by zac on Fri Sep 28 07:43:46 2012, in response to Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Sep 28 07:21:22 2012.

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The fact that NYCT can allow a brand new, featured on the news, escalator go out of service within 2 days just shows how incompetent they are in managing contractors. If that happened in my line of work they'd be on the phone and back on the job in minutes.



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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by Mitch45 on Fri Sep 28 07:52:40 2012, in response to Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by zac on Thu Sep 27 23:01:50 2012.

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That's a new record for incompetence for the MTA.

What is it with the MTA and escalators, anyway? Escalators have been around for a century. They are not cutting edge technology. Why can't they keep these things running? Is someone on the MTA board getting kickbacks from the escalator repairs contractors? I remember when the escalator at Boro Hall on the 2/3 was closed for repair for almost two years.

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by R36 #9346 on Fri Sep 28 08:18:36 2012, in response to Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by zac on Thu Sep 27 23:01:50 2012.

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That new escalator wasn't running when I was there… Tuesday the 25th at about 22:00.

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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by zac on Fri Sep 28 11:55:15 2012, in response to Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by zac on Thu Sep 27 23:01:50 2012.

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It was running again this morning.

On another note, the announcement on my B train was "transfer is available to the Downtown 6". There were a lot of people getting off in spite of this that were transferring. Given how few people did the out-of-system transfer it felt crowded on the 6 train today. I guess it will always be this way from now on. A lot of people always transferred going the other way.



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Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS

Posted by italianstallion on Fri Sep 28 15:09:37 2012, in response to Re: Bleecker Escalator already OOS, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Sep 28 07:21:22 2012.

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"There's a gap of nearly 8 hours between when Mr. zac recorded the outage and NYCT's website documents it responded. "
That may be, but there is no evidence of when the outage was reported to the MTA. Posting on Subchat does not count.

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