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Stranded subway riders forgotten
Posted: Dec 7, 2011 5:41 AM by Kate Richards
Updated: Dec 7, 2011 5:41 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - A transit official has admitted that subway passengers left stranded on a train for hours during last year's blizzard had been forgotten.
New York City Transit President Thomas F. Prendergast testified Tuesday at a City Council hearing on winter preparedness.
Among other things, he discussed an A train that was infamously stranded last December on an open-air station platform in Queens, near Kennedy Airport.
According to The New York Times, Prendergast told the committee: "We forgot about that train."
He added that the situation was "inexcusable."
Prendergast says that now, advocates will be responsible for "the care and well-being" of stranded passengers. He says that will be their only job.
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