Yep, we’ve got ’cane-do attitude: MTA

Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the MTA’s subway and bus facilities, but on the seventh anniversary of the storm Tuesday, transit brass said they’re better prepared for the next big one.

Since 2012, the agency has repaired six subway tunnels, plugged holes in roughly 3,500 spots where water enters the subway and installed 24 submarine doors to prevent serious flooding in the system.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority crews are also working to repair and strengthen the Coney Island Rail Yard, which serves six subway lines and was hit with 27 million gallons of salt water during Sandy.

It’s the largest subway rail yard on the planet, and the heartbeat for much of the city’s transit network.

The MTA is working to install a massive wall around the 74-acre yard to prevent flooding, and is building a bridge to protect some of the facility’s key electrical cables from future floods.

“We learned a lot of lessons from Sandy,” MTA Chairman Patrick Foye said at the subway’s Coney Island Rail Yard. “One of the most sobering lessons was that severe weather is no longer an anomaly, and the effects of climate change have only worsened.”

MTA Managing Director Ronnie Hakim (inset) said the improvements at the Coney Island yard are emblematic of the agency’s wider focus on resiliency.

“I think everything we’re doing today is to protect from extreme climate change,” said Hakim, adding that she expects the Coney Island yard will still be standing more than a century from now.

That promise may be hard to keep. A 2016 report from the Regional Plan Association shows the rail yard and its surrounding neighborhood would be underwater if sea levels rise by more than 6 feet, which is expected to happen by 2100.