OPINION: Commuters brace for one L of a mess
The good news is that the mayor has promised a “war room” dynamic during the 15-month shutdown of the L-Train’s East River tunnel that will begin in April. The bad news is that, for more than a year, commuters who travel from North Brooklyn each day will face a situation that the mayor has compared to state of war.
The city needs to repair damage done in 2012, when superstorm Sandy flooded the Canarsie Tunnel under the East River with millions of gallons of salt water, causing severe damage.
Trying his best to sound reassuring at a press conference on Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio said, “I’m here to say, ‘We got you. We are on this.’” In what the Transport Workers Union said is the understatement of the year, the mayor conceded that “it’s not going to be easy,” but, he said, “people will be able to get around.”