The MTA is testing a new inflatable plug intended to seal off subway tunnels during major disasters, several months after the system was crippled by historic flooding during Sandy. On Thursday, ...

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Huge inflatable plugs – now being developed by the federal government to protect subway tunnels from terrorist attacks – likely could have saved some of New York’s subway tunnels from storm-related ...

A giant inflatable plug that can be filled with 35,000 gallons of water at a moment’s notice could have prevented some of the flooding that crippled New York City’s transit in the wake of Sandy, ...