mo4ch:>NYC subway meltdown wrecks rush-hour commute, inexplicable computer glitch to blame | Mo4ch News

A large portion of New York City’s troubled subway system ground to a halt in the middle of Friday rush hour, leaving thousands of commuters stranded as seven train lines were forced to suspend service for over an hour.Thousands of passengers were stranded on station platforms and trapped in tunnels between stations for over an hour on one of the hottest days of the year when a still-unexplained computer failure took out a huge chunk of the city’s subway system during the evening rush hour on Friday. The glitch severed the connection between the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) Railroad Control Center and the signal system controlling six of the numbered lines and the crosstown shuttle at 5:50pm.Also on rt.comMajor power outage cripples Manhattan on anniversary of great NYC blackout of 1977 (VIDEOS)“We do not yet know what the root cause this failure was,” MTA President Andy Byford told a press conference, adding that the problem was not believed to stem from a loss of power or …