I'm pretty ignorant about this. How tf is this even possible?
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
167 points (98.3% liked)
News
23296 readers
3174 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Sounds kinda like the same thing with above ground trains, someone didn't run the correct track and ran into a out-of-service train. Says right in the article that it happened near a track switch, so likely human error/someone didn't get the memo on don't go track "A" go track "B" today kinda thing.
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.
I believe the New York subway system moves about the same amount of riders per day as the entire US continental air travel system. Imagine trying to keep that whole thing running when it is a political target that rich people use as basically a dog whistle for shitting on poor people. You also have to put these kinds of accidents into perspective with that kind of magnitude of rides that went perfectly fine.
The subway has a daily ridership of approximately 3.2 million.
With an average of 2.56 million passengers per day passing through TSA checkpoints
Yep, more by over a half million people more per day on the subway in one city. =)
It is a pretty mind blowing technological achievement even though plenty of other cities have better systems, the numbers are just so big for subways.
Makes sense for "the city that never sleeps"
Shit broke yo.
The out-of-service train had been stuck because someone pulled a number of emergency stop cords and the workers were on board to reset the brake cords, said Richard Davey, president of New York City transit for the MTA.
Probably some kid doing some stupid joke