THE United States Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) are awarding New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) $US 193m in Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.

SOME New York City-area residents resumed their everyday commute on Monday with varying degrees of success. But New Jersey residents may be deprived of adequate rail transit alternatives for far longer than their counterparts in New York State and Connecticut, in large part due to damaged rolling stock and locomotives.

MORE trains are now running on the New York rail network following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy earlier this week. But it will be several weeks before all the repairs will be completed.

HURRICANE Sandy, the worst storm of its type to hit the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area in generations, has had a devastating impact on the rail network.

METROPOLITAN Transportation Authority (MTA) has awarded Bombardier a $US 599m contract to supply 300 new subway cars to New York City Transit (NYCT).

New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority is celebrating the completion of tunnelling work on the extension of the 7 Subway to 11th Avenue.