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"As we start digging this tunnel, we're helping to dig out of our economic crisis," Sen. Bob Menendez (pictured) said. Gov. Corzine, Sen. Lautenberg, and other officials also spoke at the groundbreaking. Today looked to be an important milestone in the Access to the Region’s Core project, with Gov. Jon Corzine and a [...] Developer Larry Silverstein wants the Port Authority to back loans for two of his three planned WTC towers (The authority is building the fourth). Tri-State has joined the Regional Plan Association and other civic and transportation groups that are urging Gov. Paterson, Gov. Corzine, and Mayor Bloomberg not to divert money from the [...] NJ TRANSIT and private carrier buses move a population nearly the size of the city of Cincinnati across the Hudson River every day, totaling 100 million bus passengers annually, twice as many passengers as travel into New York City by commuter rail. A new report from the Campaign argues that the Port Authority of [...] by Kyle Wiswall
A private developer has offered to renovate and reopen the Gimbels passageway, in yellow above, which would provide an underground connection between Penn Station and Herald Square. The walk from Penn Station could be less crowded in a few years. As part of the redevelopment of Hotel Pennsylvania and the Manhattan Mall, the [...] The Arthur Kill Lift Bridge, which connects Staten Island and Elizabeth, NJ, was rehabilitated as part of the SI Railroad work. The Staten Island Railroad freight line, which is NYC’s only connection to the national freight rail network and which reopened in 2007 after lying dormant for 16 years, has reached an important [...] by Kyle Wiswall
What this rendering of the future Goethals Bridge doesn't show is that one of these lanes will be dedicated to transit and carpools. At last week’s Stakeholder Committee meeting for the Goethals Bridge Replacement project, the US Coast Guard and Port Authority revealed that the new Goethals Bridge will dedicate one lane in [...] October 24th, 2008 | Tags: Coast Guard | Category: New Jersey, New York City, Port Authority | 6 comments
A Port Authority rendering of the renovated GWB station. This week the Port Authority released renderings of a newly struck deal to renovate the George Washington Bridge bus station’s bus facilities and retail spaces. The renovation will increase bus capacity at the station by about 50% as well as quadrupling retail space, according [...] An NJ Transit bus heads westbound through the Lincoln Tunnel. According to a TSTC analysis of data from the Port Authority, more cars leave New York City via the Lincoln Tunnel in the evening than come into the city in the morning. Yet, the Lincoln Tunnel Exclusive Bus Lane (XBL), which allows buses [...] The New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s recently disclosed plan to fund a 10-year capital program with higher tolls is fatally flawed because it includes dubious widenings of the NJ Turnpike and Garden State Parkway. But it does get one thing right: it would fund New Jersey’s portion of the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) [...] September 8th, 2008 | Category: New Jersey, New York City, NJ Transit, Port Authority, Transportation Funding | 6 comments
Port Authority rendering of replacement Goethals Bridge. Note the space for potential mass transit in center of bridge. Earlier this month the Port Authority released renderings of a bridge that will replace the outmoded Goethals Bridge connecting New Jersey and Staten Island. The design, which includes six 12-foot lanes, shoulders, a bike [...] |
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