Problems At The Roosevelt Island F Train Station Earlier This Morning - Subway Service Out Due To Mechanical Problems Causing Overcrowding On Hot And Sweaty Tram

Did you have problems with your Roosevelt Island F Train commute this morning? The Twitterverse reports:

55 min delayed to work because of one F train stuck at Roosevelt Island... Thanks MTA!!! #NYCLiving
— Hockey Chick NYC (@hockey_wench) August 21, 2013

Are you kidding. An incident at ROOSEVELT ISLAND is to blame for the delays on all trains coming from Queens. So absurd. #icant
— Keeley (@KeeleyMangeno) August 21, 2013

#ServAdv: s/b #F trains via #E line from Roosevelt Av-Jackson Hts to 5 Av-53 St due to mechanical problems at Roosevelt Island.
— NYCT Subway Service (@NYCTSubwayScoop) August 21, 2013

#ServAdv: Following an earlier incident at Roosevelt Island, #E, #F, #M & #R train service has resumed with delays
— NYCT Subway Service (@NYCTSubwayScoop) August 21, 2013

According to this Roosevelt Island resident:

Very weird service this A.M.  Over 20 minute wait this am at 6am. Erratic service all morning

Another resident reported problems at the Tram caused by the F Train delays:

For some strange reason there is no F from Roosevelt Island today.

At 8:10 am there were lines stretching to outside of the turnstile on each side. As a result, many of us did not make in into our usual 8:13 am Tram which was loading when we arrived.

When finally in the next cabin at 8:30 it is so packed that the operator had to ask 6 people to disembark in order for us to take flight! Sadly, no one would budge until the other Tram was just over head, delaying us further.

I have ridden our Tram daily for more than 20 years. Never have I seen such stubbornness and inconsideration as I have today on The RI Tram today.

Hot and sweaty we made it through to the other side in tact. Thank God!

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UPDATE 8/22 - Yesterday's F train subway delays were not any fault of Roosevelt Island's according to this eyewitness report from resident Jonathan Clement:

I was down in the RI station when they announced that there was a broken-down Manhattan-bound train at Queensbridge. Sure enough, when I got to Queensbridge, there was a broken-down train on the Manhattan-bound tracks (as well as another one right behind). People were streaming off both trains and heading to the Queens-bound F, so they could backtrack and then catch the E to Manhattan.