Sea Walls Will Protect New York Subways From Storm Surges
Walls Against The Sea In this March 22 photo, work proceeds on seven-foot-tall sea walls along the A-train tracks in the Rockaways, Queens. Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Kevin Ortiz, CC BY 2.0 New walls in the Rockaways will protect a vulnerable stretch of the A train tracks. After Hurricane Sandy, there was a lot of talk about sea walls for New York City. Now a few walls really are going up-out in the Rockaways, Queens, a neighborhood that's still feeling the effects of the storm, WNYC reports. Two miles of steel walls will protect a part of the A-line train that's still out of service from Sandy. (Rockaways residents who commute to Manhattan now use Metropolitan Transportation Authority-provided buses that WNYC previously reported sometimes takes all night to get people home.) The new walls are made of "marine steel" designed to resist saltwater corrosion, contractor Mitch Levine told WNYC. They...