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A Year After Sandy, No New Hurricane Plan From NJ Transit
2013-11-13 22:52:19| Railroads - Topix.net
The 2013 hurricane season is now over and New Jersey Transit still does not have a updated hurricane plan - more than a year after losing hundreds of its rail cars during Sandy.
MTA Customer Satisfaction Remains Steady Despite Disruptions from Superstorm Sandy
2013-11-13 13:28:14| Railroads - Topix.net
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 -- The New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued the following news release: Customer satisfaction surveys conducted in June 2013 show essentially stable satisfaction ratings across all services operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority .
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Hurricane Sandy recovery, one year later
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A year after Hurricane Sandy, recovery efforts are still ongoing, and questions remain about how to rebuild and prepare the coastlines for the next storm. A group of experts discusses rebuilding and protective options from sea walls to "oyster-tecture" and considers calls for a "managed retreat" from the shore.
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Hurricane Sandy exposes New Jersey's marsh mistakes
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: When Hurricane Sandy's powerful storm tide pummeled New Jersey, 70 percent of the state's old submerged marshes flooded, researchers reported Monday (Oct. 28) at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Denver. About 25 percent of those marshes were developed, and two-thirds of that development took place between 1995 and 2007, said Joshua Galster, a geomorphologist at Montclair State University in New Jersey. "A lot of these areas were being developed when we really should have known...
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Post Sandy, U.S. pushes microgrids for backup power
2013-10-31 22:54:07| Energy - Topix.net
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks as U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, right, watches during a news conference to announce a grant at NJ Transit's Frank Lautenberg Station in Secaucus, N.J. on Aug. 26, 2013.
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