Cuomo: “Bus Bridge” Linking Manhattan and Brooklyn Coming*Soon (New York: costs, buses)

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Hurricane Sandy transit information:

Cuomo: “Bus Bridge” Linking Manhattan and Brooklyn Coming Soon | Streetsblog New York City

A few quick takeaways from Governor Cuomo’s recently-concluded press conference on the recovery from Sandy:
There will be very limited subway service restorations*tomorrow*today*tomorrow morning, on 14 of the MTA’s 23 lines. Nothing below 34th Street. That’s as specific as he got.

Of the seven flooded subway tunnels under the East River, three have been pumped, but presumably there will be no trains running in the tunnels for a while.

Streets will apparently be repurposed, to some extent, to handle the extra pressure (which is only expected to get more intense as power comes back online and more people resume their commutes).

Cuomo said there will be a “bus bridge” linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, but specifics aren’t available yet.*Update:*The buses will run from Downtown Brooklyn to Midtown, which sounds like a Manhattan Bridge route.

Chuck Schumer said he’s going to press for 90 percent of the recovery costs to be shouldered by the feds, as opposed to the typical 75 percent.

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You could have put all three of your latest threads into one thread. Or better yet, just post them as updates on the main hurricane thread as everyone else is doing.