or car tyres bound together to make artificial reefs,
but this is the first time I have seen subway cars used,
since the early 2000s, decommissioned New York City subway
cars have been seeded into the waters around New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and
other eastern states, creating infrastructure for fish habitats along the
coastal shelf running from New York to North Carolina,
it has been chronicled many times how new fish habitats have been formed using artificial reefs, in late 2000, the Metro Transit Authority began dumping 1200
old cars into the water; in 2007, another 1600 were added to the list, photographer
Stephen Mallon has spent years capturing this deliberate subway-dumping activity
in action on the surface and underwater, what a great way to use unwanted trains, buses and
planes.
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