MTA marks post-Sandy repairs on New York subway, Greenpoint Tubes

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced recent progress on work to repair Hurricane Sandy-related flood damage to affected portions of New York City Transit's (NYCT) system and the Greenpoint Tubes.

The work was completed on 12 weekends between July and December 2013, MTA officials said in a press release.

Repair and mitigation work was performed during 55-hour periods between late Friday nights and early Monday mornings. During the shutdown of the tubes, workers "blitzed out" the service portion of the G Line, installing nearly 9,000 feet of communication conduit and more than 85,000 feet of communication, power and fiber optic cables, MTA officials said. They also repaired 3,600 feet of track and scraped and painted 906,000 square feet of station ceilings and columns.

Track and equipment were submerged and filled with 3 million gallons of salt water, and the tunnels' pump controls, electrical, communications, fan control and signal equipment were heavily damaged as a result of the storm. Controls for ventilation, lighting and communication systems also were destroyed, MTA officials said.

Work in the Greenpoint Tubes will continue in 2014, they said.