New York City faces significant challenges with its infrastructure due to heavy rainfall exacerbated by climate change. The city's sewage system requires an investment of $36 billion to manage rainfall effectively, as current capacity is insufficient for extreme weather. The MTA experiences its own water management issues across rail and bus systems. As lawmakers address this by proposing $300 million in federal funds, it remains clear that without enhanced drainage capacity, frequent severe weather will disrupt public transportation and operations.
"They don't have the capacity to deal with rainfall in excess of an inch and a half, to an inch and three quarters in an hour," Lieber explained on NY1. "We got 2.1 inches in that one-hour last night."
"In the era of climate change, we may keep getting - looks like we're going to keep getting - these kind of torrential rainfall events on a regular basis," he added.
The MTA has water management problems of its own at rail yards and bus depots and on the commuter railroads.
Public transportation systems already lack sufficient resilience funding, and increasingly frequent extreme weather events precipitated by climate change will disrupt operations.
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