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This quote is from a WSJ article “New York City Subways to Shut Down as Sandy Nears“ on 28 October 2012: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702048405045
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This quote is from a WSJ article “New York City Subways to Shut Down as Sandy Nears“ on 28 October 2012: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204840504578084582421401190 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204840504578084...
“The shutdown is a matter of complexity and risk-management for the MTA. A key objective for the agency on Sunday: moving thousands of buses and subway cars out of low-lying parking lots and yards that could be hit by a storm surge, including the 148th Street Lenox Terminal yard in Harlem and the Coney Island yard in southern Brooklyn, the largest rapid-transit yard in the U.S.
On Sunday, MTA workers were moving trains from low-lying areas to safe underground storage spots, including express tracks on the more than 700-mile subway system. Workers also secured vulnerable electronic equipment that could be susceptible to the corrosive saltwater of a storm surge.”