Ida’s $75M bite of MTA

The MTA suffered at least $75 million in damages from flooding tied to Hurricane Ida earlier this month, acting Chairman Janno Lieber said Wednesday.

“We’ve given our initial estimates to FEMA, and that was in the 75- to 100-milliondollar range,” Lieber told reporters after the authority’s monthly board meeting. “Usually, these numbers creep up as you start to understand the secondary impacts of whatever took place.”

The MTA pumped 75 million gallons of water out of the subway system in the aftermath of the storm, Lieber said.