Straps were trapped in a Q train for nearly 90 minutes on Monday afternoon due to snow on the Brooklyn underground subway tracks, a driver told The Post.
‘We are now an hour and twenty minutes between Parkside and Prospect Park. There is no heat in the train, there are 3 people who are wearing no masks, no form of ventilation, ”said Q train driver Rachel Turner just after 3:30 pm.
“About 30 minutes ago we were informed that the snow had accumulated too much to move forward and that we had been allowed to reverse back to Parkside to get off, but no one has been heard from since then.”
Transit officers confirmed the service interruption – which stopped the last Q train scheduled to cross the Manhattan Bridge before overground subways closed – on Twitter, saying they needed to clear “ accumulated snow. ”
The train briefly lost power while waiting, the MTA confirmed, leaving Turner and others freezing. The train and its passengers were eventually diverted back to the Parkside Avenue station, Turner said.
She finally got off the train at 3:38 PM
With overground subways out of service from 2 p.m., Turner walked 0.6 miles to access the nearest train to Manhattan.
An MTA spokesperson later blamed the delay on “ snow-obstructing equipment on the tracks. ” An investigation continued.
“This was an isolated incident one day of exceptionally bad weather, and we apologize to our customers for a frustrating and troubling delay,” MTA Representative Shams Tarek said in a statement.
“Preliminary findings are that some of the time power was out during the incident related to snow-obstructing equipment on the tracks.”