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Overview of the $10 billion enhanced build-in-place project for the Port Authority Bus Terminal
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Hersh Parekh provides a comprehensive overview of the $10 billion enhanced build-in-place project for the Port Authority Bus Terminal replacement. This chapter details the key components and features of the proposed new facility.
- Describes the main components: new main terminal, staging/storage facility, ramp structure, and deckovers
- Highlights the inclusion of space for intercity buses to reduce street congestion
- Emphasizes the creation of 3.5 acres of new open space for the community
- Stresses that the project will be built entirely on Port Authority property with no eminent domain
Hersh Parekh
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So this is a much larger project.
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It is what we call the enhanced build in place project.
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It is a $10,000,000,000 project, and it does meet the needs of the community, It meets the needs of the commuters, and we are proud of that, and we are proud to have achieved that vision in partnership and collaboration with the community.
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Also critically important, as council member Batcher noted, there will be no eminent domain.
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Every piece of this project will be built on Port Authority property, no taking of private land.
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This project, is made of a number of different components.
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You start with the yellow building, on the far, east side.
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That's gonna be the new main bus terminal.
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It will include not just space for, commuter buses, but also significantly important for the community, space for intercity buses.
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These are your Megas and your Bolts that currently operate on curbside locations.
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We will be able to move many of them into the new bus terminal, which was a critical ask from the community.
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West of that, you see the staging and storage facility, in the purple blue color.
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That facility is important because it will allow for those buses that currently idle and park on local streets to be moved into this terminal.
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It will make sure that buses are no longer, creating congestion, causing pollution.
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Instead, they will be able to stage in this facility, while they are waiting to get to their gate.
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They'll be able to store in this facility during the midday hours between the 2 rush hours.
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Also important is that this facility will serve as a temporary terminal so that when we demolish the existing bus terminal, this facility will be able to maintain, operations for buses.
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To the west of that, you see the brand new ramp structure, which is important because it connects directly into the Lincoln Tunnel, reduces the number of buses that need to circulate on city streets, and is a much more efficient operation.
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And then just below, the the the bus terminals, you see what's called the deckovers and the new open space.
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These are, initially will be constructed as decks over the the Dyer Avenue Roadway.
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There will be bus operations there during the construction program, but upon the conclusion of the program, the deckovers will be converted into nearly 3 and a half acres of much needed open space, that this community does not currently have.
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Also, an important ask from the community that we are happy to be able to deliver on.
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So, again, key points here.
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Nope taking of private property, all port authority property, responsive to many of the needs and requests and feedback that we received from the community and the city, and a much larger $10,000,000,000 project.
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Go the conditions today and what we anticipate will be a brand new terminal, as council member Batcher noted.
