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Old 1st-October-2007, 08:14 AM
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Default 1600 old NY subway cars to be used for artificial reef

The claim is that the old cars will serve as artificial reefs for sea life while providing divers with an underwater glimpse of New York icons. One thing is clear: NYC Transit is saving millions of dollars by dumping them at sea. If transit otherwise scrapped them, removing asbestos from the old cars would cost an additional $27 million.

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The ocean, the biggest garbage dump in the world. Artificial reef my booty.
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What the hell? Why would you not recycle the steel? There has to be millions of dollars worth of steel right there. Dumping it is stupid.
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