PATH to be Screwed by Port Authority Efforts to Meet Deadlines
By admin on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
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.
