The MTA's first wave of major anti-terrorism projects will include installing high-tech surveillance systems to protect its underwater tunnels, the Daily News has learned.
The systems will be able to detect intruders entering the 14 subway and commuter rail tunnels leading into Manhattan - sending alarms and images to Metropolitan Transportation Authority police and anti-terror staff in command centers, sources said.
Cops would be dispatched immediately to thwart any possible attack.
The "intelligent CCTV [closed circuit television]" systems will be among the contracts totaling up to $400 million worth of anti-terror projects the MTA plans to award by the end of the year, the sources said.
The MTA has been sitting on this pool of money for several years now, only spending a mere fraction while critical needs went unaddressed. It's good to see that some of the critical infrastructure needs are going to be considered, but the tunnel safety issue I've raised in the past is still up in the air. The $400 million is going to be addressing system-wide issues, not the safety issues of the Hudson and East River tunnels.
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