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the other morning,
well the morning i first started the temp job,
i was early af and the mta decided to play me.
“There is train traffic ahead of us”
it had us stuck in a tunnel for about 15 minutes.
by that point,
my anxiety started to get the best of me.
it wasn’t the type of train we could walk between cars.
it felt like i was in a packed steel box.
i had to turn on the “brilliant idiots” podcast to keep me focused.
thank God for charlamagne and andrew.
so i’m surprised no one sued yet with this following story.
the “f” train in new yawk stalls in a tunnel,
the lights shut off,
the a/c goes out,
and panic ensues.
sounds like a horror movie.
well this is the story via the ny times…
On Monday evening, passengers were stranded without power between the West 4th Street and Broadway-Lafayette Street stations, a 45-minute ordeal in which the cars became overheated, causing some riders to panic and one woman to strip nearly naked as they waited in the dark to be rescued, passengers said.
“It felt like a greenhouse. It felt like we were going to suffocate,” said Michael Sciaraffo, 36, an analyst for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. He was on his way home to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, when the train slowed to a halt and suddenly went silent and black. “We were trying to keep cool. We were coming close to the point where people were ready to start flipping out,” he said. “We were teetering toward that.”
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Adding to the anxiety, passengers said, was a long pause with no announcement from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority about the cause. Mr. Sciaraffo said the first announcement said their train was held up by traffic delays.
“Then we got word that the train broke down,” he said. “How could you lie to us and keep us like this, uninformed?” he asked, referring to the transit agency. “That’s when it really turned up, people started getting anxiety, claustrophobia.” He said a woman in his car removed her shirt and pants to avoid overheating, and other passengers shielded her with their coats for privacy.
A train supervisor arrived at the southbound F train at about 6:30 p.m., 10 minutes after the power went out, and entered the rear of the train, Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for the transit agency, wrote by email. At that time, riders were informed that the train “was unable to take power,” Mr. Ortiz said.
About 6:45 p.m., the train was recharged and was able to inch into the Broadway-Lafayette station. The train operator was instructed to pull the front of the train past the station platform so that the train behind it could enter and let passengers off, Mr. Ortiz said, explaining why the doors on the first train could not immediately open.
The doors on the train “were opened within five minutes of pulling into the station, and customers were discharged” about 7:05 p.m., he said. The first announcement to customers by the train crew is under review, he added.
During that 45-minute wait, riders tried to claw open the doors for air, said Chris Ebelhar, a passenger. A person chanted, “‘Find your happy place, find your happy place,’” he said. Panic increased when passengers realized that the doors at each end were locked, he said. “If there was a fire, we would have all died or just burned up,” he said. “We couldn’t open windows. It was insane.”
— Chelsea Lawrence (@chelseahbelle) June 5, 2017
Mr. Sciaraffo said that when the train rolled into the station, “The conductor said, ‘Do not open these doors at all until further notice.’ And everyone started going crazy.”
Videos posted on social media by passengers waiting on the platform captured fingers shooting through the rubber strips between the train doors. When the doors opened, the sweaty passengers escaped.
S/b F train stuck for over an hour w/o light and air just rolled up-passengers dripping with sweat begging to get off #mta @MTA #effedtrain pic.twitter.com/NXJ3pDJtji
— Chelsea Lawrence (@chelseahbelle) June 5, 2017
40 minutes tho?
someone(s) could have died.
that is enough to make someone go crazy down there.
i’m sure someone is cooking up a lawsuit as we font.
hopefully,
that will get the mta’s entire shit together with the fuck shit.
article cc: the new york times
read the entire ordeal from a passenger on: facebook