Traffic & Transit
Ida Damage Could Carry $100M Price Tag For MTA: Reports
Flooding in the city's subways from Hurricane Ida's record-breaking rainfall not only snarled trains, but could carry a long-term cost.
NEW YORK CITY — Damage to New York City's transit system from remnants of Hurricane Ida could carry a $100 million or more price tag, according to reports.
MTA Acting Chair Janno Lieber said Wednesday that the transit agency is still calculating the cost from the record-breaking storm.
“We’ve given our initial estimates to FEMA, and that was in the $75 to $100 million range,” Lieber told reporters Wednesday after a board meeting, according to the New York Post.
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The cost could tick upward as MTA officials tally the storm's secondary impacts, Lieber said, according to the New York Daily News.
The Sept. 1 deluge claimed more than a dozen lives, set a single-hour rainfall record in Central Park, flooded the city's streets and subways and largely caught the city by surprise. City leaders afterward called the storm a wake-up call for the effects of climate change.
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More than 75 million gallons of water inundated subways and had to be pumped out in the hours and days after the storm, Lieber said, according to the Daily News.
Read the New York Post here and the New York Daily News story here.
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