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10/29/2013
Passengers traveling on certain Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) services in New York City are receiving free rides today in honor of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.No fares will be charged for riders entering stations on MTA New York City Transit's A line between Howard Beach and the Rockaway Peninsula, and stations on the R line between Bay Ridge-95th Street and Court Street until 11:59 tonight, the governor said in a press release.The free rides are being issued as a "thank you" to MTA riders "for taking the hardships of the storm in stride and for their understanding in the months since," Cuomo said.The Montague Tube on the R line was entirely flooded by Sandy's storm surge, and still is closed for an extended outage as repair work advances so the tunnel can reopen as quickly as possible.Residents of the Rockaways in Queens were without subway service for seven months after Sandy as the entire A line south of Howard Beach was rebuilt and fortified against future flooding.Each day, about 65,000 riders travel on the R train in Brooklyn and about 30,000 riders use the A train from the Rockaways.