Subway service on the A and C lines was delayed Thursday morning as transit workers raised safety concerns following an overnight slashing attack on a conductor.
A Transportation Workers Union official said the workers were concerned that the assailant was still at large. Wait times exceeded 30 minutes on the A and C lines on Thursday morning. The MTA’s website noted the agency was “running as much service as we can with the train crews we have available.”
“The atrocious attack on a subway conductor in Brooklyn is a horrific example of the epic, decadeslong failure by the MTA and Chairman Janno Lieber to protect transit workers,” Transportation Workers Union International President John Samuelsen said in a statement.
The MTA said the delays were resolved later that morning.
The union released a gruesome photo of the conductor, Alton Scott, 59, receiving treatment for a bloody gash in his neck.
Police said the attack happened around 3:40 a.m. as a southbound A train pulled into the Rockaway Avenue Station in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The union said he was making “routine observations from the cab window of his train” when the attacker cut his neck.
Police said they were searching for a male suspect wearing a blue vest who fled the station.
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