To the Editor: Super Storm Sandy in 2012 resulted in extensive flooding damage to the NYC Transit subway system. In the aftermath, the Federal Transit Administration provided billions in discretionary funding under the Super Storm Sandy Recovery and Resiliency program to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
This supplemented over $1 billion in annual FTA formula funding that has grown to $1.5 billion today. NYC Transit should have learned from Super Storm Sandy which of the 471 subway stations and 36 subway lines were most vulnerable to flooding or located in flood zones. Remedial actions should have been completed years ago.
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