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QUEENS (PIX11) – A giant drill bit narrowly missed drilling right through a packed subway car in Queens Thursday morning.

 

The machinery, being used for the East Side Access project, was being operated by a contractor above ground near the 21st St. Station in Long Island City.

 

 

The drill bit narrowly missed hitting a packed ‘F’ train. (Photo: MTA)

The drill bit, measuring 10 inches in diameter, broke through the tunnel’s roof at about 11:45 a.m., grazing the top and side of an ‘F’ train with approximately 800 people aboard, according to the MTA.

 

 

http://pix11.com/2014/10/30/giant-drill-bit-narrowly-misses-packed-f-train/

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Interesting timing, given the discussion that was going on in another thread about how great subcontractors were...

Some of these folks here in this fourm yakking have no idea what goes on down here....

 

That's why I sit back and laugh at some of them...

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This is an example of the people building our new subway. Its ridiculous, the incompetence of it all.

 

I mean, sort of kind of. This seems like a subcontractor contracted by a subcontractor. Personally, I feel like the real problem is the lack of oversight and the degree to which various levels of responsibility are quick to not care as long as they can blame another level of responsibility. "As long as it's somebody else's problem, why should I care?" seems like the pervasive attitude, at least from my rather limited perspective. 

 

I'm not justifying such an insane screw up, but remember that ESA is using the lower level of the 63rd street tube. So the construction literally has to be right up against the active F train line. 

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This was kept completely under wraps for most of the day. First, we heard something about a "brake pipe rupture" (or other "mechanical problem"), then later in the afternnon, something about a column moving, or something like that. Then, Daily News online got it, but the news channels hadn't even yet.

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This was kept completely under wraps for most of the day. First, we heard something about a "brake pipe rupture" (or other "mechanical problem"), then later in the afternnon, something about a column moving, or something like that. Then, Daily News online got it, but the news channels hadn't even yet.

 

I mean, I don't think it was entirely wrong to keep it somewhat under wraps. To an extent that it had the potential to cause panic, there's sort of justification for not being totally up front about it. 

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They should had known better! Don't drill it before you get permission to go ahead. They should had done this when the (F) train is running on the (E) line. They do it very often and that time period would be more safer to do that.

 

The less time you have to do it, the more expensive it gets; now that we have such things as seismic detectors and GPS, this should've been perfectly avoidable.

 

I am all for safety, but not if it is going to make the most expensive, delayed project in the MTA pipeline become more expensive and delayed.

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