Taller than a double-decker bus, the “Resilient Tunnel Plug” can stop future flood waters from destroying the subways. Its first installation is happening now. The Superstorm known as Sandy caused an ...

Experts have provided a solution for stopping flooding in subway tunnels in the form of a giant inflatable plug that will seal them off and stop water from flowing throughout the subway system into ...

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 ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a ten-by-five-metre inflatable structure that could be quickly deployed to isolate sections of transit or rail tunnels in the event of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — With a few dull thuds, the 1-ton bag of high-strength fabric tumbled from the wall of the mock subway tunnel and onto the floor. Then it ...

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The Resilient Tunnel Plug is demonstrated to show it can quickly fill a subway or tunnel and prevent or limit flooding and damages. To take part in the Machine Design infrastructure survey, click here ...

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, ...

Scientists have successfully tested an unprecedented technology for containing flooding or dangerous gases in mass transit tunnels: a giant plug. Twenty years ago in Chicago, a small leak in an unused ...

After Hurricane Sandy decimated the subway system last year, officials pledged to install new devices to help halt the rising tides—including flood gates and, more ...