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Jul 29, 2008 10:51 am US/Eastern

NYC Report Finds More Subway Car Breakdowns

NEW YORK (AP) ― New York City straphangers -- facing a possible fare increase -- can chalk up yet another indignity: an increasing number of subway car breakdowns.

The finding is part of a Subway Report Card issued Tuesday by the group Straphangers Campaign.

It calls the breakdown rate a "troubling trend" that raises "questions about the condition and maintenance of the aging transit fleet."

Some stranded riders may be left to wonder what's going on. The report
says understandable subway car announcements declined from 90 percent in the second half of 2006 to 85 percent in the second half of
2007.

NYC Transit and its parent, the MTA, had no immediate comment.

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