If your subway commute was more fucked than usual this morning, here’s why: Last night, thieves reportedly made off with at least 500 feet of copper cable from the A train tracks in Queens.

The copper theft, which took place late last night near Howard Beach, forced a suspension of service between Broad Channel and Rockaway Boulevard and delayed thousands of other passengers who use the A line, in part because—as Capital New York notes—many A and C trains are stored in the Rockaway Park rail yard and were unreachable. Limited service was restored to A trains around 10 am, according to the New York Times.

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