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A New York City Transit Bus drives down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday night
People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.
But while New York City buses returned to darkened streets and the New York Stock Exchange prepared to reopen its storied trading floor, it became clear that restoring the region to its ordinarily frenetic pace could take days — and that rebuilding the hardest-hit communities and the transportation networks that link them together could take considerably longer.
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NOTE FROM MTA
As New York began its second day after the megastorm, commuters noticed an uptick in traffic and a small sign of normalcy: people waiting at bus stops.
Indeed, morning rush-hour traffic appears thicker than on a normal day as people start to return to work in a New York without subways.
Cars were bumper to bumper on several of the city's major highways. Monitoring cameras showed backed-up traffic.
In lower Manhattan where power was out, traffic streamed off the Brooklyn Bridge but slowed as it approached downtown. There were few signs, if any, that traffic was being directed by police through intersections with darkened stoplights.
On the Brooklyn Bridge, closed earlier because of high winds, joggers and bikers made their way across the span before sunrise. One cyclist carried a flashlight. Car traffic on the bridge was busy, and slowed as it neared Manhattan.
Today local, limited-stop and express bus service will operate as close to a normal weekday schedule as possible, the MTA announced on their Web site. Buses are still free.
Officials began the slow restoration of transit systems yesterday, but there are still weeks of work left before everything is back to normal.
Popular lines like the M34 and the M57 began service early yesterday evening, even as huge swaths of major thoroughfares like the FDR Drive and the southbound West Side Highway remained closed.
The MTA is also considering using buses to supplement the shuttered subway system.
"If, in fact, we have some part of the subway system not working, we're going to take the bus system and use it to help complement and supplement those services," said MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota.
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