The State St. Substation in Brooklyn — the subway energy room that blew up final month and stranded a number of trains underground for hours — will quickly be again up and operating, in line with MTA officers.
Roughly 12 hours later, energy from different close by substations was rerouted to cowl the tracks ordinarily powered by State St.
These adjoining amenities have been holding the trains operating for the previous month — however they’re additionally getting ready to failure, Torres-Springer stated Tuesday.
The brand new transformer, which was delivered from a manufacturing unit in North Carolina earlier this month, had initially been ordered to revive a useless substation elsewhere within the subway system. However Torres-Springer stated his staff determined the shaky standing of the opposite Downtown Brooklyn energy amenities meant State St. ought to be prioritized.
“We made a decision we had to replace it right away,” the development boss stated. “There’s a substation a couple tiers down that will get a new transformer at some point, but we’re able to live without it.”
MTA officers stated the brand new transformer was at present present process testing, and ought to be up and operating and offering energy to the third rail by the top of February.
The transformer triage comes as MTA bigs are anticipated to journey to Albany subsequent week to vouch for his or her $68 billion five-year capital price range — $3 billion of which might fund substation overhauls within the subway system.
“The State St. failure and the signal-power failures that we’ve had in the last few months, they’re really indicative of what we’ve been saying as loudly and as frequently as we can,” Torres-Springer stated.
“Our system is 100 years old, a lot of it is in poor and marginal condition, and continues to decay,” he continued. “It requires further investment to continue running safe, reliable and frequent service.”
