{"id":361894,"date":"2026-10-01T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361894\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:10:13","slug":"nyc-subway-system-hit-with-major-delays-on-multiple-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361894\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC subway system hit with major delays on multiple lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated NYC commuters faced significant delays across the subway system Thursday morning as multiple, unrelated issues on the system\u2019s lettered lines had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a ripple effect across the system<\/a>. The problems affected the A, C, D, E, F and M lines.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of switch problems at Broadway Junction and a faulty track circuit at World Trade Center suspended service on the E train south of West 4th St. station and caused severe delays on the A and C lines.<\/p>\n<p>Trains on the F and M lines were delayed as some C trains were sent through the Rutgers St. tunnel to avoid the track circuit issue in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown trains on the D line were running local to supplement the spotty A, C and E service.<\/p>\n<p>The chaotic commute was made worse by an apparent track fire early Thursday in the Steinway tubes carrying the No. 7 train under the East River. That situation was resolved shortly after 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A transit source told the Daily News that the switch issue at Broadway Junction had been resolved as of mid-morning.<\/p>\n<p>Work to address the track-circuit issue \u2014 in which the signal system erroneously reports a train occupying a section of track \u2014 was still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frustrated NYC commuters faced significant delays across the subway system Thursday morning as multiple, unrelated issues on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,56,63,65,64,608],"class_list":["post-361894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361894","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=361894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}