Government Alert: P.A. plans to put PATH back on track; Temporary service to downtown due within 2 years.(Port Authority of New York & New Jersey )(Brief Article)

Crain's New York Business, November, 2001

The top priority for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is restarting temporary PATH service to downtown Manhattan within the next two years, officials say. Complete rebuilding of the PATH station that was under the World Trade Center cannot begin until the site is cleared and decisions are made on what to eventually build on the site.

That process could take four to five years, however, and the bistate agency doesn't want to wait that long to reconnect New Jersey commuters to lower Manhattan. Instead, planners are looking at reopening the downtown PATH station by using old entrances that were closed when the World Trade Center was built in the 1960s. Those entrances are on the northern and southern edges of the trade center site, so using them would...

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