New York Dumped More Than 2,500 Subway Cars Into the Ocean: Then This Happens 20 Years Later

New York Dumped More Than 2500 Subway Cars Into the Ocean: Then This Happens 20 Years Later

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[robertshilling]

Whenever you have a bunch of junk, just throw it in the ocean and call it an artificial reef

[CraigFThompson]

Instead of being sunk in the ocean, why not convert these railcars into "tiny homes" for the homeless?!

[henrynevins]

What a waste, those cars are 100% stainless steel, that couldn't be recycled?

[RickyJr]

I served aboard U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN-65) and watched crew members tossing big stacks of stainless steel food trays from her fantail — thousands of still perfectly good food trays, thrown into the sea. Instead of recycling the steel, they used the ocean as a garbage dump and wasted taxpayer money too.

[ianmc]

Did not look like a tropical reef to me ! Just looks like someone has dumped lots of scrap metal on the sea floor

[michaelquinones-lxks]

What a waste of valuable materials, Those cars could have been refurbished to be used on low ridership railroad branch lines, Thats Government logic for you.

[MacVall]

these train cars HAVE MORE USE than most politicians

[medinacreativesolutions]

Bastard they could have scraped those machines

[ronnieg]

This is a hideous waste of valuable raw materials.

[sderasmus]

Perfect to converse it into tiny homes for the homeless, instead of dumping into the ocean.

[pauljw]

Many of those subway cars had polished stainless steel panels on the exterior. With all the steel, aluminum & stainless used to construct those cars, there had to be a substantial amount of money dumped into the ocean. I'm surprised they weren't put out on bid to be recycled.

[caver]

why not recycle the metal, such a stupid idea to put them in the ocean

[TheFroneyZone]

what blows my mind is that every year everyone freaks out about the sea levels rising - but yet there's NEVER any mention what-so-ever about water displacement 😂

[ACLTony]

At time stamp 4:55 and on this vid's opening, those are NOT New York City subway cars. They're from the transit system in Atlanta, Georgia

[whoogoesthere]

Makes you really have to stop and wonder how many tiny homes this could have made for humans. What a waste!

[woodyhuband]

Somehow the comments to this video got sidetracked (see what I did there) to a forum for homeless people.
These cars are difficult to transport and it costs more to retrofit one as a living structure than it costs to build a new house for the homeless.
Fish are an important resource and they appreciate the homes. Let’s be happy that they have a place to live 😎

[briankleinschmidt]

That's a small fortune in scrap. Do those fish pay rent?

[georgesparrow]

They àlso used to dump millions of tons of garbage out there too

[jeffconley]

The water is too cold off the coasts of the states you mentioned for hard corals to grow. Interesting that New York was not one of the states mentioned, where these cars are dumped. Just another example of New York city dumping their trash in someone else's backyard.

[denniscarver]

I have more respect for my garbage disposal than NYC has for ocean. Been dumping garbage for decades. Cleanest thing they dumped.