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Re: Push to Replace Port Authority Bus Terminal |
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Posted by Joe V on Fri Mar 20 10:48:21 2015, in response to Re: Push to Replace Port Authority Bus Terminal, posted by j trainloco on Thu Mar 19 22:53:01 2015. 1) Nothing we want right now has any funding, including Gateway. I have sat through PPT presentations by the Parson Brinkerhoof project Manager (you have not). It is far from dead, even if it is not in the newspapers. Every agency has endorsed it, especially NJT. They do not want to continue running all those buses to Manhattan.2) A subway across 42nd Street does not mean 3 seat rides. If it does, keep riding buses to PABT. 4) Since Gateway funds no parking lots at rail stations, the NJT rail system is ill-equipped to take on a significant share of the bus market. There is also the issue of munciply w\owned lots. Paramus does not get to park at Ridgewood rail station very easily. 5) We run every other #7, which is 18,000 people per hour. 6) I am not interested in increasing property. You brought that up, I didn't. It is physically impossible to accommodate future bus growth, or even manage the existing, regardless of what is done to that bus terminal. So best to think out of the box. The trend has already started in Camden/Philly. Svereal years gao, many NJT bus routes were truncated at Walter Rand for a ride on PATCO. The world did not crack. |
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