Hazy smoke filled a Brooklyn-bound G train during the morning commute, sending panic-stricken passengers scrambling for an exit and covering their mouths as crews worked to clear the scene.<\/p>\n
Riders say the frightening ordeal is something they won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs somebody who takes the G train every day for work, that is out of this world,\u201d said commuter Kalini. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine being on the train and there\u2019s smoke like that. That\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
MTA spokesperson David Steckel says a mechanical issue was behind the smoke. Steckel says a “review reveals the [G] train hit an object on the tracks that has yet to be recovered, causing a third rail contact shoe to spark.” Exposed wires generated smoke “that penetrated the interior of the train.”<\/p>\n
Passengers were safely evacuated at 21st Street, and service was temporarily suspended between Bedford-Nostrand Avenue and Court Square. The disruption left many riders frustrated as they faced significant delays.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little frustrating because I\u2019m trying to go get my kids, trying to pick them up,\u201d said Yaakov, who had been waiting for about 45 minutes. \u201cI\u2019m already running late.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others described confusion after being directed out of stations and back through turnstiles, only to be told to seek alternate routes above ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to use the G train right now,\u201d said commuter Yoki. \u201cThe information that I received on MTA is that the train is running, and now that I\u2019m at the station, I\u2019m told it\u2019s not running either direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
To ease the disruption, the MTA offered alternate travel options, including the B43 and B48 buses to Greenpoint, and the B62 between Greenpoint Avenue and Court Square. Still, reactions among commuters were mixed.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people are pissed off. They\u2019re being late now. You can even lose your job,\u201d said Nelson Espinosa. \u201cBut for me, I\u2019m just going to see my kids. I\u2019ve got all day to go. I\u2019ve got plenty of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others urged patience amid the chaos.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just gotta be patient,\u201d said Taj.<\/p>\n
Steckel says an internal review remains ongoing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hazy smoke filled a Brooklyn-bound G train during the morning commute, sending panic-stricken passengers scrambling for an exit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8588,14737,14736,9,24,63,3444,1961,19147],"class_list":["post-144303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-commute","tag-commuters","tag-commuting","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-train","tag-train-station","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}