Attack led to green line downtime
The east end of the green line was down for an hour and a half at rush hour Wednesday after a knife attack on an older woman. Radio-Canada just says “at Assomption station” but TVA puts the attack on the metro train itself, followed by someone pulling the emergency brake. Police have caught a suspect, and the victim is all right.
jeather 20:01 on 2019-09-04 Permalink
Oh, that’s what it was? I was at Guy-Concordia and after about 10 minutes with the eastbound train sitting there not moving I gave up and walked home (westbound, not really much longer a walk than the metro). The buses that passed by me were packed, but they just called it a use of the emergency break. A friend was caught (with kids and stroller) in it too.
I’m not sure what happens, honestly — they said Pie-IX to Honore-Beaugrand but how can the rest of the line function? Obviously it barely did, but is there some way to switch tracks between stations or something? There must be a solution, otherwise they would have said the entire line was down.
Kate 07:43 on 2019-09-05 Permalink
jeather, I don’t know every detail, but the green and orange lines both have spurs in several spots so that, in theory, if one end of a line halts for any reason, trains can stop short and turn back so the rest of the line goes on operating. I don’t know how often these are called on, but they do exist.