Weiner Proposes Using Retired Subway Cars As Barrier Reefs
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A local congressman wants to change the final resting place for retired subway cars.
Congressman Anthony Weiner held a news conference yesterday to call on the state to revise environmental codes to allow the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to dump retired subway cars into city waters.
He says the agency has spent more than $6 million to ship more than 2,000 retired cars to New Jersey, Delaware, and other states.
Weiner says the trains could be sunk locally to create artificial barrier reefs for fish and other marine life.
The State Department of Environmental Conservation is said to be reviewing the plan.