At some point, I will probably have a post about what happened to the power grid in New Orleans this weekend, but it's too soon to see what the flaws in the infrastructure were that led to the total collapse.
So here's a lengthy article pointing out the flaws in New York's subway system; flaws that could lead to a complete shutdown if there's another disaster equivalent to Hurricane Sandy.
But nearly nine years after the superstorm, dozens of other projects designed to strengthen the transit system against future catastrophic weather events remain unfinished — with the pandemic slowing some for months at a time, an examination by THE CITY found.
From erecting miles of protective walls around subway yards in Coney Island and Upper Manhattan, to finishing repairs along the Rockaway Line, to replacing a waterfront Staten Island Railway facility that flooded during the storm, the MTA’s nearly $8 billion federally funded Sandy repair program is a slow-moving work in progress, agency records show.
“We are not fully protected — Sandy was not a once-in-100-years storm and we could potentially get hit by another major storm at any time,” said Lisa Daglian, executive director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA. “The more protected we are, the better.”
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