PATH to be Screwed by Port Authority Efforts to Meet Deadlines
The Port Authority released a revised schedule for the new World Trade Center site. In order to make their deadlines, PATH service to the World Trade Center will be suspended weekends beginning in 2009 and lasting through 2011. PATH riders have already taken a beating by the Port Authorities weekend service changes.
As recently as two years ago, the Port Authority operated a normal weekday schedule between 7am and 7pm on Saturday and Sundays. In order to accommodate construction at the World Trade Center site, that schedule was replaced with inferior service, sending all 33rd street trains through Hoboken, and removing Hoboken to World Trade Center service from Friday at midnight until Monday morning. While the Port Authority promises to "mitigate the impact," that probably means they simply will expect PATH riders to crowd into 33rd Street bound trains like cattle into boxcars.
Meanwhile, the new PATH terminal at the World Trade Center won't open until 2014, and will cost $3.2 billion, or $100 million more than the 1,776 foot tall Freedom Tower. Curbed provides an excellent time line for the site.
PA Press Release
As recently as two years ago, the Port Authority operated a normal weekday schedule between 7am and 7pm on Saturday and Sundays. In order to accommodate construction at the World Trade Center site, that schedule was replaced with inferior service, sending all 33rd street trains through Hoboken, and removing Hoboken to World Trade Center service from Friday at midnight until Monday morning. While the Port Authority promises to "mitigate the impact," that probably means they simply will expect PATH riders to crowd into 33rd Street bound trains like cattle into boxcars.
Meanwhile, the new PATH terminal at the World Trade Center won't open until 2014, and will cost $3.2 billion, or $100 million more than the 1,776 foot tall Freedom Tower. Curbed provides an excellent time line for the site.
PA Press Release
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3 Comments:
what scumbags. as if the PATH service wasnt bad enough, now i have to completely take an out of the way route to get to the city for two years! theres got to be a way to have some say in how they *&#@ us over at least.
2009, 2010 and 2011 would be three years, not two years.
The press release specifies "until 2011" which would imply the year of 2009 and the year of 2010 up until the start of 2011, or 2 full years.
The Journal reported today the closures would begin come summer 2009, and would include most, but not all weekends, or about 40 out of 52.
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