MTA chief: Sandy a 'devastating' disaster
Photo credit: Newsday / Jeff Schamberry | The railroad crossing gate on Eagle Avenue in West Hempstead wasn't working Tuesday morning. It was broken Monday night during megastorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)
MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota outlined blows from Sandy in a statement early Tuesday, a list of vast damages that will likely keep much of public transit offline for some time.
"Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our entire transportation system, in every borough and county of the region,” the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said in a statement. “The New York subway system is 108...
