From: tls@panix.com   
      
   In article <06afb18d-29a7-4c7a-a058-993d56f14a2c@googlegroups.com>,   
   Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
   >   
   >The news was somewhat lost in the wake of the minor derailment of a D   
   >train north of 125th St., which shut down A, B, C, and D service   
   >throughout the city.   
      
   I assume you're joking about "minor" and just mistaken about "D" -- it   
   was an A train, and it was (and still is) quite the mess.   
      
   I _adored_ Swingin' Joe Lhota's first public response to the crash, which   
   was to:   
      
   A) Blame the passengers   
   B) Reveal his own ignorance of the system's functioning and equipment   
      
   Within a few hours they'd revised the claim that a passenger caused the   
   crash by pulling the e-brake cord to the perhaps more sustainable claim   
   that at some point either before or after the derailment, the train went   
   into emergency (as they do, any time there's any compromise of the brake   
   pipe).   
      
   They also seem to have done their best to bury Swingin' Joe's statement   
   that the train might have been "old equipment where passengers can pull   
   the emergency brake" or "new equipment where they can't"; since after all,   
   it would be kind of embarassing if the shiny vaunted new MTA chairman,   
   who already supposedly ran the system for several years, didn't know that   
   the very newest equipment on the line that derailed was built in 1978, right?   
      
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