{"id":337289,"date":"2026-09-03T20:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337289\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:51:03","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-findings-released-from-mta-audit-prompted-by-2024-subway-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337289\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Findings Released From Mta Audit Prompted By 2024 Subway Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The MTA inspector general on Thursday released the results of an audit that found deficiencies in NYC Transit&#8217;s substation maintenance program.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 2024 transformer explosion at the State Street substation in Brooklyn prompted the report, which stranded more than <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/sudden-power-outage-strands-thousands-of-subway-riders-in-brooklyn-for-hours\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4,000 riders<\/a> for two hours.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The audit revealed that 19% of required maintenance checks were not completed that year. It also found that at State Street, crews missed 12 of 23 assignments before the blast.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The audit also said that fire alarm warnings were ignored and some workers were not wearing required protective gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MTA inspector general on Thursday released the results of an audit that found deficiencies in NYC Transit&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-337289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337289","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=337289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}