As far as the blackout, it hit while I was taking my first and only ride on Cleveland's light rail. Was goin' down to the airport to take a one-way rental to Columbus to pick up a car I'd bought. Long story short, after a two-hour wait, we wound up walking down the right of way into the Terminal Tower, and I was able to get a (packed!) bus to the airport where the rental company was doing their paperwork by hand.
Prior to that I worked for Columbia University and was there on 9/11. We were hosting a conference that day, and didn't know until later that the rumble that shook Lerner Hall (at 114th St.) was the shock of the first tower falling. I just lived down at 98th and West End, and usually walked back and forth to work, so the transit disruptions of that day didn't bother me any. (Plenty else did and still does, but that's beside the point.) I do recall seein' the M104 packed since the 7th Avenue was down.
What I can say is that the transit system in Cleveland and their riders responded about as well as New Yorkers in a similar situation. The train I was on when we got stuck was just a two-car affair. When it became plain that we were going to be there for a while, the motorman (a woman, actually) lowered her pantograph and used her batteries to open the doors on the side away from the third-rail used by another line that runs over the same tracks, and declared the lead car to be smoking, and the aft carriage for smokers.
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