How's this for a nightmarish start or end to your subway ride: Being trapped in a hot subway elevator for over an hour. The Post reports, "A dozen straphangers were trapped for more than an hour in a sweltering elevator in a Washington Heights subway station" at 168th Street and Broadway yesterday afternoon between 4:11 p.m. and 5:20 p.m. The people had to be extracted out of the elevator via the ceiling hatch one by one.
The 168th Street station is one of the deepest in the system and is only accessible by the elevators. The Post says, "Six people who showed symptoms of heat exhaustion were transported to Presbyterian Hospital — five were taken as a precaution, and one was serious, officials said." NYC Transit is looking into the incident but "MTA records show that the elevators are reliable: they worked 98 percent of the time in the last quarter, with five unexpected outages." Still, NYC is the leading city where people waste time in an elevator, according to a study.
