Impatient rider leaps from stalled subway to walk on tracks
NEW YORK (AP) — Transit officials in New York City say a straphanger on a subway train stalled in a tunnel during Tuesday's morning rush hour jumped off the cars and walked on the tracks.
Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the agency received reports of one man jumping onto the tracks from the space between subway cars.
The stress of a crumbling subway system with more passengers than ever — 5.6 million weekly in 2016 — has caused the number of train delays to triple in the past five years, to 70,000 per month.