Metro

Con Ed: We shouldn’t pay for train power failure

Con Edison’s president said Monday that the company is not on the hook financially for a power failure that shut down a Metro-North commuter rail line for 12 days.

President Craig Ivey said at a senate fielding hearing that it wouldn’t be fair—and that Con-Edison followed procedure after Metro-North commissioned the maintenance at their substation.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called the hearing in Bridgeport to look at the cause of the outage, its economic impact, and how to keep failures from reoccurring.

He told The Post that Con-Ed’s refusal to take financial responsibility is “completely unacceptable,” and that they need to absorb some of the costs for refunding customers.

“Con-Ed has the predominant share of both ethical and legal responsibility, and ought to be held accountable,” he said.

The Metro North has been reimbursing customers affected by the outage that started in November by offering them discounts on weekly and monthly passes.

The New York Public Service Commission is conducting an independent review of the outage.