BLOOMBERG: …The Metropolitan Transportation Authority restarted some subway service today and some commuter rail lines yesterday. With the unprecedented scope of the damage becoming clearer, authorities and New Yorkers filled in the gaps in rail service with new bus routes and schedules, cabs picking up multiple passengers, ferries plying the Hudson River and bicycles streaming across the Brooklyn Bridge.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo waived fares on subways, commuter trains and buses through tomorrow as automobile traffic ground to a halt in the largest U.S. metropolis. Drivers, in addition to braving hours-long traffic jams, sat in lines as long as two miles to buy gasoline from the few service stations that had power.
“Traffic in Manhattan today was very, very high, and the gridlock was downright dangerous,” the Democratic New York governor said at a press briefing today. “We have to take further action as an encouragement to have people take mass transportation, which is coming online piece by piece.”… (more)
