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Pretty reliable. Meaning, you might have to wait awhile for your train to come, but it WILL come eventually. During the day, you usually don't have to wait more than 10 or 15 minutes for a train, and in the middle of the night, you usually don't have to wait more than half an hour, at the most.

Often there are delays due to weather conditions (flooding or ice on the tracks), or certain lines are shut down for repairs and trackwork. But if the train you need is unavailable, they will create an alternate route for you. Like, if the C train is shut down between midnight and 5 AM for a week, then the B train will run along the C train's route during those hours. Worst case scenario, they will provide a shuttle bus for you, at no additional charge.

Occasionally someone will have a heart attack or something on the subway, and the whole line will be shut down until the paramedics come. But that doesn't happen very often, and there isn't really anything they can do to prevent it.

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