This morning, the Wall Street Journal made a shocking announcement related to the Port Authority. No, it wasn't another Bridgegate scoop—it was the revelation that the agency would be cutting all weekend PATH service between the World Trade Center station in lower Manhattan and the Exchange Place station in Jersey City.
The WSJ's story is mostly about how the Port Authority's $580 million plan for signal improvement will cost about $50-60 million more, "The rising cost is being driven in part by a decision reached in December, shortly after a fatal Metro-North train crash in the Bronx, to ensure that the 21-mile PATH train system complies with a federal mandate to install anti-collision systems by the end of 2015."
The PATH website has information about the shutdown, under the clever title "A PATH Forward": "Every weekend in 2014, beginning February 14-16 and excluding major holidays, PATH service will be suspended to and from the World Trade Center and Exchange Place Stations to allow the Port Authority to advance critical signal system work to meet the federal mandate of installing Positive Train Control technology by December 31, 2015, continuing security work, as well as ongoing post-Sandy repair and resiliency work. In addition to safety and security enhancements, this work will provide PATH riders increased reliability in the future, as well as laying the ground work for increased passenger capacity as early as 2016."
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Say Goodbye To Weekend PATH Service Between WTC, Jersey City In 2014
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