Water Main Break in Midtown Manhattan Floods Subway System

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : “The main impact, of course, has been on the subways, because the water main is above the subway station here,” Rohit Aggarwala, the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, said earlier on Tuesday.
55% : Crews were still investigating what could have caused the break, a spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Protection said.
45% : Only the intersection of 40th Street and 7th Avenue remained blocked off, according to the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, and it was expected to stay closed for at least the rest of the day.
41% : Mr. Davey said the subway system’s old age and location underground made it prone to flooding, but that New York City Transit and the Department of Environmental Protection needed to work together to ensure future water main breaks would not affect train service so severely.

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