"The situation in New York is a national embarrassment"

Thousands of subway trips in New York City have been canceled in recent weeks because the pandemic and a related hiring freeze have battered the work force and left a shortage of train operators, conductors and workers.

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And with fewer trains, many passengers on the largest transit system in North America have seen their commutes become less reliable and take noticeably longer. Nearly 11,000 trips were eliminated last month alone.
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...canceled train trips will likely continue. That will mean longer waits for trains for months to come, even as public schools fully reopen after Labor Day and many companies welcome back office workers for the first time since the pandemic shut down the city last March.
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Kim Wren has waited so long for the A train recently that she has been repeatedly late to work.

So now Ms. Wren leaves her home in Queens a half-hour early to make sure that she can get to her job as a surgical technician in Washington Heights by 7 a.m.

“It’s absolutely horrible,” said Ms. Wren, 28. “I’m miserable.”