Sentences with phrase «city subway tunnel»
Screening devices that detect suicide vests like the one that exploded in a New York City subway tunnel are being tested in a Los Angeles transit station, but Schumer said the TSA should speed up plans to deploy the technology nationally.
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Besides destroying homes and office buildings here, the storm caused seven of 14 subway tunnels to flood, effectively shutting down all public transportation in the city of over 8 million people.
Recently, the agency came under fire once again for its $ 100 million plan to build Art Deco towers in front of the city's bridges and tunnels, when the subway is in need of funds.
A program to install Art Deco - style towers in front of the city's bridges and tunnels has come under heavy scrutiny this week after it was revealed that the MTA had set aside $ 100 million for the project, in the midst of a subway crisis.
De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.
In recent days Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly engaged two of the massive transportation agencies he controls on hot button topics, demanding in an open letter that the MTA act to address a recent spike in sexual assaults reported as occurring on the New York City subway system and demanding answers from the Port Authority on a report that NYPD officials ensnared in a corruption investigation arranged for a special escort, with a lane closure, through the Lincoln Tunnel.
Lhota ran the MTA, which operates buses, subways, commuter railroads, bridges and tunnels in the New York City area, from 2011 until the end of 2012.
The list also includes two expensive projects in the president's home town, New York City, a major subway extension and new rail tunnels under the Hudson River.
The tunnel, financed by the city and the MTA, would bring subway service to the Hudson Yards project, an upscale housing development located between 30th and 33rd streets from Eleventh to Twelfth Avenues.
The agency runs subways, buses, commuter railroads, bridges and tunnels in New York City and the surrounding areas.
The MTA plans to shut down the New York City subway L train's East River tunnel for 18 months for repairs starting in 2019.
Massey offered the idea of building «a bridge, a tunnel and a subway» from Manhattan to Long Island City, Queens in order to spark economic development.
The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.
If you're traveling true backpacker style and hopping from city to city, consider investing in a pack that is easy to carry up and down stairs as you weave through subway tunnels and train stations.
Constellation Bl at Century Park East will be closed for approximately 15 months to construct a launch box for the Purple Line Extension tunnel boring machines digging the twin tunnels for the underground subway through Century City.
This post is truncated by the troubles I'm having getting online in a blacked - out part of the Hudson Valley, but I want at least to start a discussion of the prime question of the moment: What are the political, economic, societal and personal traits that caused one of the world's wealthiest and most sophisticated cities to end up (despite longstanding warnings) with flooded tunnels, subways and neighborhoods and widespread flood - triggered loss of electricity?
If a storm similar to Katrina (i.e. Category 3 hurricane) hits New York City in the coming decades, it could easily result in $ 500 billion (half a TRILLION) dollars in damage, due to flooding of most of the structures on Long Island, most major tunnels into NYC (e.g. Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel), many subway entrances, and flooding of JFK and LaGuardia airports.
The 2012 hurricane breached the sea walls at Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan, and flooded the city's subway tunnels, but the city's record of such surges goes back only to 1850.