Why NYC’s Subway Keeps Flooding | WSJ Pro Perfected
After Hurricane Sandy, New York invested $7.6 billion dollars into flood-proofing the subway – yet it still floods. So now, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is seeking a further billion dollars to deploy new tactics, like those used in Taipei and Tokyo, where tsunamis are prevalent but their networks were designed with flooding in mind.
WSJ spoke with an MTA engineer to see how the city is looking to improve subway flooding to keep some four million daily NYC subway riders moving.
Chapters:
0:00 MTA spending
0:54 Hurricane Sandy failures and normal operations
3:03 Active storm surge protections
5:27 Passive storm flood protections
8:03 Bigger projects
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