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Subways started rolling in much of New York City on Thursday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy crippled the nation's largest transit system. Traffic crawled over bridges, where police enforced mandatory carpooling.
Ridership was light in the morning, and the trains couldn't take some New Yorkers where they needed to go. There were no trains in downtown Manhattan and other hard-hit parts of the city, and people had to switch to buses.
Drivers are dealing with a traffic nightmare after a minimum passenger mandate took effect Thursday morning in an attempt to ease gridlock in Manhattan, CBS New York reports.
People were grateful anyway. Ronnie Abraham was waiting at Penn Station for a train to Harlem, a trip that takes 20 minutes by subway and 2? hours on city buses that have been overwhelmed since resuming service Tuesday.
"It's the lifeline of the city," Abraham said. "It can't get much better than this."
But many residents without subway service were not so lucky. In front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a line to wait for buses into Manhattan stretched twice around the arena and commuters reported wait times of one to three hours to get on a bus.
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Subways started rolling in much of New York City on Thursday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy crippled the nation's largest transit system. Traffic crawled over bridges, where police enforced mandatory carpooling.
Ridership was light in the morning, and the trains couldn't take some New Yorkers where they needed to go. There were no trains in downtown Manhattan and other hard-hit parts of the city, and people had to switch to buses.
Drivers are dealing with a traffic nightmare after a minimum passenger mandate took effect Thursday morning in an attempt to ease gridlock in Manhattan, CBS New York reports.
People were grateful anyway. Ronnie Abraham was waiting at Penn Station for a train to Harlem, a trip that takes 20 minutes by subway and 2? hours on city buses that have been overwhelmed since resuming service Tuesday.
"It's the lifeline of the city," Abraham said. "It can't get much better than this."
But many residents without subway service were not so lucky. In front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a line to wait for buses into Manhattan stretched twice around the arena and commuters reported wait times of one to three hours to get on a bus.
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