The subway line B stayed this Monday two hours interrupted due to technical problems in the middle of rush hour and a formation stopped between two stations with passengers inside, so They had to be evacuated along the tracks.
The formation stopped around 5:45 p.m. between the Ángel Gallardo and Malabia stations, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Almagroso the users had been stranded inside and were evacuated, guided as they walked along the tracks by personnel from the EMOVA concessionaire firm.
According to the agency Argentine Newssome of the passengers began to break down from nerves that generated the situation.
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Faced with this situation, SAME, City Firefighters and emergency personnel arrived to assist the affected people.
Some of the passengers had to be assisted at the station, although no serious problems were reported.
Corrientes Avenue, near Malabia, was completely blocked by the City Police to provide assistance to those who needed it.
The explanation of the concessionaire firm EMOVA
On social networks, several users were concerned about what was happening, so from EMOVA they responded that it was a technical failure.
“We regret this eventuality that we have on the Line at this moment. The service is interrupted due to a technical cause in a training. We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. As soon as we normalize it we will communicate it,” the company reported on the social network x.
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The firm explained that “as a result of this inconvenience at 5:45 p.m., a limited service first had to be carried out between Dorrego and Rosas”, where “specialized mechanics tried to carry out maneuvers to move the formation and avoid evacuation.”
“However, because it was not possible, at 6:20 p.m. the Line service and energy were interrupted to implement the operational safety protocol for these cases and evacuate the detained formation,” EMOVA detailed.
He also added: “Simultaneously, Firefighters, SAME and Emova personnel arrived at the station to assist in the procedure, which was carried out without problems.”
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The company explained that at 7:30 p.m. they continued “carrying out technical verifications to restore the service.”
Meanwhile, at 7:52 p.m. EMOVA reported on its social networks that Line B was already providing “its full service between headers, normalizing its usual frequency.”
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