MTA NYCT Sandy Resiliency & Repair Project Rockaway Line
After the damage during Hurricane Sandy, the MTA has undertaken a multi-year effort to harden the hurricane-vulnerable Rockaway Line, overhauling viaducts, bridges, and critical signal assets from Howard Beach to Rockaway Park. A key slice of that scope is modernizing and repairing the communications infrastructure that ties stations, substations, and a future signal tower at Beach 105 Street into the wider NYCT network.
Industry
Transportation
Owner
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) New York City Transit (NYCT)
Service/Expertise
Network & Communications Infrastructure
Project Delivery Type
Design-Bid-Build
Replacement of damaged fiber splice case and cutting/splicing of a section of newly installed fiber cable onto the existing NYCT fiber ring in freezing-cold weather.
Flooded/damaged old splice case (left) versus newly replaced splice case (right).
OTDR/OLTS testing to verify and validate integrity of the new fiber runs and fusion splices.
VI Contribution
VI engineers led the fiber-optic upgrade for portions of the Rockaway line, installing new high-count single-mode cable across more than 10 track-miles. Old sections of fiber cable were cut, and new fiber was spliced in its place. At each substation the VI team built and mounted new fiber distribution panels equipped with sliding LC cassettes, slack trays, and splice-protect organizers—creating orderly, serviceable termination points.
VI engineers led the fiber-optic upgrade for portions of the Rockaway line, installing new high-count single-mode cable across more than 10 track-miles. Old sections of fiber cable were cut, and new fiber was spliced in its place. At each substation the VI team built and mounted new fiber distribution panels equipped with sliding LC cassettes, slack trays, and splice-protect organizers—creating orderly, serviceable termination points.