New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced a $6 billion Climate Resilience Roadmap aimed at fortifying the city's transit system against the impacts of climate change. This comprehensive plan includes making subway stations and commuter rail lines more resilient to extreme weather conditions such as flooding. Recent storms have highlighted the urgency of these upgrades, with heavy rains causing significant disruptions to subway and bus services. The initiative, which spans over the next few years, is designed to ensure the reliability and safety of the transit system for future generations.
Recent storms have brought heavy rains that flooded subways and buses. Now, the MTA is unveiling a plan to make mass transit more resilient. @alecia__reid explains. https://t.co/6246Vlhvx2
The MTA needs $6 billion in capital funding over the next five years to keep the city’s transit system running in the face of a changing climate, it said. “This is something we have got to do now.” https://t.co/d4llaCFr8v
New York City’s transit system plans to spend $6 billion during the next few years to make its subway stations and commuter rail lines more resilient to extreme weather https://t.co/F110HwSY0Z
MTA unveils $6 billion plan to deal with flooding and other extreme weather https://t.co/ENYUx12y8K https://t.co/A7rDiWLUZm
Today, we unveiled the Climate Resilience Roadmap, a comprehensive framework to fortify the transit system against the impacts of climate change. This in-depth plan underscores our commitment to ensure reliability and safety in the transit system for generations to come. Read… https://t.co/XpHpRdIV0o
The city of Passaic received historic funding Wednesday to combat flash flooding. @VMurdockTV highlights how the federal funds will change the city's landscape and spoke with experts about how climate change will impact future flash flood events. https://t.co/1AhRjUDdcw