The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has moved forward with a plan to replace its aging bus terminal in New York City.
Board members approved a plan Thursday that will include an international design competition for a new terminal.
The current terminal at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street is more than 50 years old and handles more than 200,000 people per day. It’s considered outdated and ill-suited for projected increases in traffic in the coming years.
“We expect ridership to double by 2040 at the bus terminal, from 120,000 people each way to 240,000,” New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney said earlier this month. “It’s not going to work in the location it’s at.”
Board members last month were sharply divided on what direction the project should take, but a consensus was reached since then on several fronts.
The plan approved Thursday also would hire a consultant to look at ridership projections and consider how the new terminal would fit in with other transit projects.
The last major bus terminal upgrade was in 1979 – an era when the terminal and the area around it comprised a seedy district known for crime, prostitution and vagrancy.
(AP)
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They should build two terminals.
They should replace the current George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal with a larger one and have all intercity buses use it. It is right above I-95 (literally) and will dramatically shorten intercity bus trip times. There is already an underground connection to the A subway and one could be built to the 1 subway.
The second terminal should be in midtown near Penn Station and the Lincoln Tunnel. Build connections to the 6th, 7th, and 8th Avenue Subways and the PATH trains as well as Amtrak, LIRR, and NJT. There used to be a bus terminal across the street from Penn Station.
Who will pay for it? I’ll tell you who…..Get ready for the toll hikes on the PA NY/NJ crossings. When it costs $50 to cross into NJ you think then people will get it then?
“When it costs $50 to cross into NJ”
Without significant transit infrastructure improvements, it won’t matter how much the toll is, because the traffic will be so bad you won’t be able to get to the river crossings.