While any traintunnel project has yet to be solidified, the officials said Superstorm Sandy showed the need to add to the region's transportation infrastructure.
For the chance at one day riding in a new traintunnel beneath the Hudson River, commuter rail riders may have a strange entity to thank: superstorm Sandy.
The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 traintunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.