To kick off our 'Climate Ready' series, we delve into an issue that all New Yorkers have dealt with: hot subways.
Anthony Carlo has details on how the MTA is getting ' Climate Ready ' to deal with extreme temperatures.At Eyewitness News and across all of ABC News, we are launching a new initiative called " Climate Ready ," as we look at what our local communities are doing to deal with our changing climate and extreme weather events.During the sweltering summer months, the heat within the New York subway system has been called everything from "oppressive" to "the Sahara Desert.
"We have to appreciate, two two-ton units that can do an entire home, that is doing one subway car," Watkins said. If the temperature is above 75 degrees, the car will fail inspection and it will eventually be taken out of service so the AC can be repaired.The A, C, N, Q, W, No. 1 and No. 3 lines have the oldest cars in its fleet and where you're most likely to find broken AC units.
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