This story from WNYC confirms that.
MTA Chief: More Sandy-Related Subway Tunnel Closures Are Coming
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 11:21 AM
WNYC
New York City Transit employees pumping water out of the Cranberry Street Tunnel in November 2012
(MTA New York City Transit / Leonard Wiggins/flickr)
Subway riders should expect more lengthy shut-downs of lines
that use tubes to move in and out of Manhattan. That's the warning from
MTA chairman Tom Prendergast.
"It's the ones in Lower Manhattan where the storm surge occurred," he said.
Prendergast spoke to reporters this morning after addressing a Citizens Budget Commission breakfast. He said the shut-downs are needed to repair damage from Storm Sandy, which flooded 9 of 14 subway tubes with millions of gallons of salt water. Corrosion from that flooding continues to degrade electrical components in the tubes.
"We have other tubes we’re going to have to deal with, because salt water and electricity just don’t go together," he said. Which ones? Prendergast singled out the tubes carrying the 2, 3, A and C lines between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
Other lines whose East River tubes could be closed are the 4, 5, F and L.
But that won't happen until the current shut-downs are done. This summer, the MTA closed the tube carrying the R train beneath the East River for 14 months of repairs. And the G train tube between Brooklyn and Queens is undergoing 12 weekends of closures.
Prendergast said the MTA might be able to repair the remaining damaged tubes without the unprecedented full shut-down that the R train tube is undergoing. "Any [repairs] we could do on nightly closures is where the focus would be," he said. "Then you look at weekend closures." But he didn't rule out more full shut-downs, either. "There's what we call an 'out-of-phase,' which is a permanent, seven-day-a-week [closure] for a number of months," he said.
Prendergast spoke to reporters this morning after addressing a Citizens Budget Commission breakfast. He said the shut-downs are needed to repair damage from Storm Sandy, which flooded 9 of 14 subway tubes with millions of gallons of salt water. Corrosion from that flooding continues to degrade electrical components in the tubes.
"We have other tubes we’re going to have to deal with, because salt water and electricity just don’t go together," he said. Which ones? Prendergast singled out the tubes carrying the 2, 3, A and C lines between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
Other lines whose East River tubes could be closed are the 4, 5, F and L.
But that won't happen until the current shut-downs are done. This summer, the MTA closed the tube carrying the R train beneath the East River for 14 months of repairs. And the G train tube between Brooklyn and Queens is undergoing 12 weekends of closures.
Prendergast said the MTA might be able to repair the remaining damaged tubes without the unprecedented full shut-down that the R train tube is undergoing. "Any [repairs] we could do on nightly closures is where the focus would be," he said. "Then you look at weekend closures." But he didn't rule out more full shut-downs, either. "There's what we call an 'out-of-phase,' which is a permanent, seven-day-a-week [closure] for a number of months," he said.
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