Digging in garbage cans raccoons quite often can be seen on the streets and in the parks of new York. But to meet them in the tube is less common.
Today at 5 am a wild raccoon, trapped on the railroad tracks in Queens near Broad Channel, stopped the movement of trains traveling on the line A to a Manhattan. This was reported by the official MTA Twitter account.
Update: Manhattan-bound A trains are proceeding with delays after we moved a train with it’s brakes activated caused by a raccoon on the tracks near Broad Channel. https://t.co/tyZfnj8KLX
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) March 22, 2019
For petty robber the train had to make an unscheduled stop, using the emergency brake. This incident led to traffic delays all subsequent trains in this direction.
If now the animal, which caused so much commotion, and all he managed to get to the station, is still unknown.
#Delays
Manhattan-bound [A] trains are proceeding with delays after we moved a train with it’s brakes activated caused by a raccoon on the tracks near Broad Channel.
— Subway ACE NYC (@mtanowace) March 22, 2019
However this is not the first case of raccoons in the subway.
In February of this year it became known that raccoons often appear at the stations on the L line in Canarsie. At the station East 105th Street animals can be found even in the afternoon, where they quietly scavenge or run on rails.
Not all residents of these areas are happy to this neighborhood. And while cases of raccoons attacking in a subway it was not, people are worried that at any moment one of the striped bandits can bite someone.
«Raccoon again observed at station E 105th St on the line L, — said the Senator Persians on Twitter — it Seems that they like to use this station».
Raccoon sighted again at E 105th St «L» Train station. @MTA notified.
Thanks to Rudy C. Constituent for sending the picture. Raccoons seem to like using this subway station. #SD19 pic.twitter.com/0ESfVapySY
— Roxanne J. Persaud (@SenatorPersaud) July 5, 2018
The MTA has installed several traps in the area, so they were able to catch and move a few pesky snappers to safer places. But the success of this operation was temporary. For some reason raccoons keep coming back to the station again and again.
