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The Star Ledger, Newark, NJ, 10/28:

2 years after Sandy, transit systems still girding for other storms

HOBOKEN — The winds and storm surge of Hurricane Sandy caused more than $2 billion in damage to the state’s mass transit systems, knocking trees onto tracks and transmission lines, and flooding train tunnels, stations and maintenance yards with corrosive salt water.

But beyond the repair and replacement of equipment to restore service, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and NJ Transit are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on resiliency measures intended to prevent or minimize disruptions and damage from similar storms.

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