RobotRisk / PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) / 2017-11

Signal problem briefly suspends PATH service at 33rd Street

S1 · 11/2017
08:25 ET · PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) · New York, NY, USA

Record

Company	PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson)
Category	other
Type	outage
Date	11/2017
Time of day	08:25 ET
Location	New York, NY, USA · 33rd Street PATH station
Severity	S1 (near-miss / disclosed vulnerability)
Scale	33rd Street station, ~20 minutes
Confidence	medium
Verification	Cited source on file; not independently re-verified
Source	NBC New York

What happened

A signal problem at the 33rd Street station forced PATH to briefly suspend service to and from that station starting around 8:25 a.m. on November 20, 2017, a documented train-control/signaling malfunction; service resumed about 20 minutes later.

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