Failure to press button caused outage on train lines in Tokyo


East Japan Railway Co. on Jan. 23 blamed human error for the power outage that stopped operations for about eight hours on the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines on Jan. 16, inconveniencing about 670,000 commuters.

but the simple pressing of a button to release the safety device after construction was completed was not carried out on the Yamanote Line side.

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