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Posted 02 March 2014 - 05:34 PM

MTA website:

MTA Prepping for Next Winter Storm


February 28th, 2014

More snow is headed our way Sunday with possible heavy accumulation and MTA New York City Transit, Metro-North Railroad, Long Island Rail Road, and MTA Bridges and Tunnels are once again preparing. Personnel will be ready to drop salt and clear platforms and stairs of snow but customers are urged to use extreme caution while navigating the system.

NYC Subways and Buses

All weekend work with the exception of work on the 6 F L M N Q R lines has been canceled.

Click here for additional information. Additionally starting Friday night, subway trains will be stored underground to protect equipment from the elements. This will impact express service on portions of certain lines throughout the weekend into Monday.

Super-powered snow throwers, jet-powered snow-blowers, and de-icing cars - retired subway cars modified with tanks and other specialized equipment to spray de-icing fluid on the third rail will be deployed starting Friday night. Select train will also be equipped with scrapper shoes to keep ice off the third rails.

Snow fighting equipment will be ready to clear our most vulnerable line segments: The Rockaway A S, Sea Beach N, Brighton B Q and the Dyre Av 5 lines.

The Department of Buses will begin to equip buses with tire chains starting Friday night in order to ensure all buses on the road will have tires chains with the storm hits. Snow fighting equipment, particularly salt-spreading trucks equipped with plows will also be deployed. They work in cooperation with the Department of Sanitation to keep bus routes clear and passable. However, when street conditions worsen, buses will likely operate on a reduced schedule, and determinations will be made on a route-by-route basis about how much service can be provided based on street conditions.

Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad

The railroads will call in hundreds of extra personnel who pre-salt and platforms at more than 200 stations and keep the platforms, yards, switches and tracks clear of snow and ice. The railroads will activate switch heaters to ensure switches continue to function despite cold temperatures and icing and will run trains throughout the night to patrol for weather-related problems. The Long Island Rail Road will keep waiting rooms open around the clock, through Wednesday morning.

The Long Island Rail Road run special train cars modified to put antifreeze on third rails to keep them clear of ice, and Metro-North trains use special third-rail shoes to keep them clear of snow and ice buildup. Railroad crews are armed with chainsaws to clear fallen trees that could block trains, and Metro-North will pay special attention to overhead catenary wires on the New Haven Line, which are susceptible to ice and snow.

The railroads have treated door panels with anti-freeze agents and pre-positioned rail-mounted snow fighting equipment to combat snow accumulation along the tracks. That includes snow blowers that blast cold air, or hot air from rail-mounted jet engines, plow trains, double-ended snow broom/thrower machines, front-end loaders and backhoes.

Paratransit

For our Access-A-Ride paratransit service, we have developed a dashboard storm monitoring system to track immobilized vehicles and customers. NYCT has also coordinated a procedure with OEM and City first-responders for rescuing customers on immobilized vehicles or those who develop medical needs during storms.

Bridges and Tunnels

The snow and ice fighting arsenal used to keep the agency’s seven bridges and two tunnels clear and safe for motorists includes 98 trucks and tons of anti-corrosive deicer, made of rock salt products treated with deicing additives which is significantly less corrosive to steel than salt alone.

The snow fleet, made up of regular maintenance trucks that are turned into snow plows and conveyors during winter months, includes 44 vehicles equipped with ground temperature sensors that tell the operator and bridge managers if the roadway is in danger of freezing. The operator then spreads additional deicer where it is needed.

The Authority's bridges also are equipped with imbedded roadway sensors for temperature and above-ground atmospheric sensors that deliver real-time information on wind velocity, wind direction, humidity and precipitation via wireless communication. These sensors record data used to determine if speed restrictions are necessary.

Customers should monitor local news outlets and look for up-to-the-minute service updates at mta.info.



Kevin Korell


OTOL Board Leader


Lakewood, NJ





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