NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The MTA was hit with estimates of up to $100 million in damages from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, Chairman Janno Lieber said Wednesday.
Lieber said at Wednesday’s MTA board meeting that the estimates they have given to FEMA were in the range of $75-$100 million.
“Usually these numbers creep up as you start to understand the secondary impacts of whatever took place,” said Lieber.
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Flooding caused huge problems at some New York City subway stations during Ida’s impact. Videos showed water gushing onto platforms and even toward the third rail in some instances.
Union officials hailed two subway workers who stopped a train ahead of floodwaters coming into the 28th Street station and helped all customers onboard get off safely.
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Lieber said Wednesday that officials will be taking a look into the stations most vulnerable to flooding in order to take action, but also cautioned that some of the steps needed to be taken might not be in the MTA’s realm to fix.
Lieber added that he didn’t want to “shoot in the dark” on how much the process would cost. He said $2.8 billion was spent in “coastal resiliency” following Superstorm Sandy.
Ida caused delays and closures across the city’s subways, the Long Island Rail Road, as well as Metro-North, which took days to get back into full service in some areas.