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MTA Touts Tunnel Fixes But Sandy Subway and Rail Repairs Still Have Long Way to Go Share this story Trent Reeves/MTA Construction & Development When repairs to the F line’s East River tunnel wrapped in late March, the MTA hailed the earlier-than-expected completion of work inside the last of the eight subway tubes damaged by Hurricane Sandy back in 2012. But nearly nine years after the superstorm, dozens of other projects designed to strengthen the transit system against future catastrophic weather events remain unfinished — with the pandemic slowing some for months at a time, an examinat...

arrow Katherine Valdez uses a wheelchair to commute from her home in Briarwood, Queens, to work in Long Island City. Amy Pearl / Gothamist A State Supreme Court Judge ruled this week that a lawsuit filed against the MTA on behalf of a coalition of accessibility rights advocates does, in fact, represent a class of more than 500,000 people who claim they’ve been excluded from the subway system because of a lack of accessibility. The 2017 lawsuit claims that because only 20% of the subway system has elevators, the MTA is in violation of the Americans with Disability Act and the N...