MTA slow to clear clogged subway drains,
watchdog report says: ‘15 years
to clean the entire system’
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/4/2021 10:12:06 PM
It takes the MTA up to 15 years to clean each of the subway’s 10,000 gunked-up drains, according to a report published Thursday by the agency’s inspector general. But a new system could streamline the process and help keep the city’s 418 miles of underground electrified subway track dry, the MTA says. “NYC Transit’s annual goal for track drain cleaning is currently 150,000 linear feet. However, with 418 miles of drains in the system, this figure represents only 7% of the total,” the report states. “[A]t that pace Infrastructure would require approximately 15 years to clean the entire system.”
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Why spend time and money cleaning drains when you can blame Climate Change and Our Rising Seas, and use federal money instead? Same issue with street sewer systems and drainways and rivers that they don't bother to dredge so the water has somewhere to go when it rains a lot.