Updated (5:10 p.m.): According to a New York Post report, the city’s subway system will start springing to life tomorrow “probably” around noon, but an MTA spokesman tells me that the report is “not accurate.” The paper’s transit reporter Jennifer Fermino originally claimed that the numbered IRT routes will likely be back in service by around noon on Monday while the D train, “with a truncated route to avoid flooded areas around Coney Island,” will start then as well. The B Division routes — the lettered BMT and IND lines — may be running by 3 p.m., but stations and perhaps some lines that were damaged in the storm will not be open. The areas in south Brooklyn that flooded may not see service restored that quickly.
Despite these assurances from The Post, MTA sources tell me Fermino’s story is premature. The Wall Street Journal says that the shutdown could extend beyond Monday morning, and an agency spokesperson told them that a Tuesday restoration is “possible.” “I’m not going to put a time-frame on this because it’s too involved in the process,” Charles Seaton told The Journal.
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Whether I have to go in to work or I can ‘work’ from home is dependent on the state of mass transit, so let’s go more delays!
I’m probably “essential personnel” and a ten-minute drive from work anyway.
#noexcusesforme
Did the MTA have a plan to restart operations as soon as it was clear Irene wasn’t a flooding catastrophe or did they only plan for the worst?
Or is there damage worse than we’re not hearing about? Reporters standing in puddles are running out of idiots to talk with so why is there information?
Potential flooding will only increase with rising sea levels so this must be the wake-up call to proactively implement measures to deal with the inevitable.
We can only hope…
DId you even see that post with the photos of flooded rail yards?
Also, NYC’s doing its damned best to deal with the global warming problem, the rest of the country, not so much.
If you’ve followed the news at all, you would know there are flooded tracks and yards all over the place. It was not the worst possible case, but it was plenty bad.
Although you can (and indeed must) plan for the worst, the actual outcome is random. You cannot predict where trees are going to fall on the tracks. The only way you can know what happened for sure is to inspect every inch.
As for rising sea levels, I don’t think global warming has reached the point where this is going to be an every-year occurrence. Building new seawalls would cost billions, and I don’t know where the money for that would come from.
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