The transit system continues to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy’s historic devastation.
“There’s nothing that comes close, in the amount of damage that has been sustained, in the past 110 years,” said MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast.
Nine subway tunnels were flooded with saltwater, and a dozen stations sustained major damage or were destroyed.
The A line’s tracks across Jamaica Bay were washed out and had to be completely rebuilt.
Service was restored to the Rockaway line at the end of May, and the Old South Ferry station was reopened in April after months of repairs.
Since Sandy, transit employees have worked around the clock — putting in roughly 2.3 million repair hours. They installed 500,000 feet of new cable, repaired 46,000 feet of track, and took out 32,000 tons of debris left by receding floodwaters.
But the work is far from done. The Montague Tube, which connects Downtown Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, closed in August and remains shut, and major work is still being done on the Greenpoint Tube.
Meanwhile, contractors are creating designs to fortify everything from train yards to manholes in the event of another storm.