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美文赏析 So _ here's _ the _ bad _ news _ for _ the _ million _ New _ York _ City _ workers _ who _ depend _on _ the _ subways _ to_ get _ from _ place _ to_ place : The entire system — all 1,050 km and 468 stations of it— is shut down , much of it flooded with corrosive( 腐蚀性的)salt Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) freely admits it has never faced anything like the severe ① damage from Hurricane Sandy , and has absolutely no idea when the system will be up and running. “ We'll know it after everything is done ,” says MTA spokesman Charles the good news is — well , never isn't , it's that bad , and if there's no telling when things will be repaired , there's even less ways of knowing what the eventual price tag ② will , there are lessons to be learned from the current ③ emergency for both New York itself and urban planners everywhere ; the question is whether they'll be heeded. New York's woes( 难题)are partly a function ④.New York's subway system is 108 years tunnels and stations are located close to or under rivers and harbors , and water seepage( 渗水)is unavoidable. “We have three pump trains,300 pump rooms and dozens of portable pumps around the system ,” says Seaton. “ Even on a day when there's no rain , we pump out 13 million gallons of water. ” Hurricane Sandy , of course , put a lot more stress on the system than an ordinary rainless water in lower Manhattan rose to m , beating the record of 3 m set by Hurricane Donna in of Manhattan below 40th without subway system will ever be truly immune ⑤ to weather is especially so in great cities like New York , whose very greatness in part depends on their nearness to rivers , harbors and other bodies of water. But spending money on th