Since August 1991, there have been seven subway derailments.

Mr. Duggan was on a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of a fatal subway derailment in 1991.

Bottlenecks resulting from last month's fatal subway derailment have forced a temporary 25 percent cutback in the number of express trains on the Lexington Avenue line during rush hours, the Transit Authority said Friday.

After four days of round-the-clock work to clean up last week's subway derailment, service resumed early today for the 500,000 riders of the Lexington Avenue IRT line, when a No.

In 1992, a consulting firm hired by the Transit Authority produced the report, well over 100 pages long, on the subway derailment near Union Square that killed five people the year before.

And in 1991, five people were killed in a high-speed subway derailment in New York.

The failure of inspectors to spot defective motor supports led to a subway derailment in downtown Philadelphia last year that killed 4 people and injured 158, the National Transportation Safety Board says.

It described how the Mayor is always there for a subway derailment, a brutal snowstorm, a water main break, an injury to a city worker, a burned firefighter or a wounded police officer.

The program was mandated by Congress last year in response to a series of accidents involving alcohol, including a subway derailment in New York City in 1991 that killed five.

He is praised by supporters and adversaries alike as an effective leader, a ubiquitous action hero of Gotham, hurrying from a burned-out building to a subway derailment to the bedside of a wounded police officer.