Illegible DEP document excerpt, Oct 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document Tuesday, August nypost.com 9/11: THE AFTERMATH Now we're moving Pols bare exciting $6B transport plan By WILLIAM NEUMAN More than $6 billion in federal funds pledged to rebuild the downtown transportation system will pay for a new transit hub and an expanded South Ferry subway station and could even lay the groundwork lor brnging the Long Island Rail Road and an airport rail link to lower Manhattan, officials said yesterday. The money "will allow us to have a multimodal center here that is far better than what was here before Sept. I1," said Gov. Pataki at 'a Ground Zero flanked By sayor ereombergand Sen. Hillary Rodham Clin- ton. The ambitious plans to rebuild infrastructure de- stroyed in the Sept. Il ter- ror attacks got boost from the Federal Emer- gency Management Agency, which agreed to free up $4.5 billion for a raft of transit improve- ments an amount that will be added to $1.8 bil- lion previously set aside by Congress. Having money in the pipeline will "allow us... to engage in a much more realistic planning pro" cess," Clinton said. State and city officials now have to decide how to spend the cash choosing from a $7.4 bil- lion wish list drawn up carlier this vear. The centerpiece is a proposed downtown Grand Central Station" lor the PATH trains from New lersey and the 1 and 9 subwav lines. a project with a Sls billion price "af $500 million under- ground walkway would connect that station to the World Financial Center and the Broadway/Nassau Street subway station, which would in turn get a $750 million makeover, to simplify labyrinthine lavout Some $400 million would be spent to build a new South ferry station for the 1 and 9 lines, lengthening the ant- quated platform so it can receive a full 10-car train, instead of the five cars it. had accommodated in the Proposed downtown transit hub past. The Transit Authority would also spend $70 mil™ Nul. Ferry lion on the so-called "Rec» tor connector," a pedes- 8way Nassau Sta- Fulton St trian link between the 1 and 9 and the Nand R lines. Some of the WTC site money could also go toward bur- ying West Street to make Mannsnan room for a grand prome- nade to the tip of Manhat- tan that although of $2 part billion project could be funded in other World Financial Centes Wall St. ways. Rector St. V,M,Z Officials also NR contem- ›late spendin& $250 mil ion to study ways to con- nect the LIRR to lower Rector connector A,5 Manhattan, either by run- ning the trains over sub- way tracks from Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn or by digging new tunnel under the East River. Battery She Se itehall St. Water St. A,R South St. Park Proposed URR linl Planners have also been discussing the possibility South Ferry 19 of creating an AirTrain 0.25 miles light-rail link between lower Manhattan and JFK Airport, possibly running Intermodal zone above parallel to an LIRR con- nection, said Lower Man- hattan Development Corp. President Lou Tomson. It will take three to five WFG years to finish the transit WIC site hub and the PATH and subway projects down- NYCTfture transi canter town, Tomson said. The $4.5 billion pledged yesterday comes out of $9 billion originally allocated to FEMA to clean up and PATH downtown concourse PATH platforms/ mezzanine Planners envision a downiown transit huby that would connect a new PATH station (left) to subway lines and the World Financial Center, Two proposed locations for the hub areat Greenwici smectanoa Church Street show heres rebuild lower Manhattan, ›art of an overal $21 bil- ion federal aid package FEMA agreed to change mules that say its funds can only be used to re store damaged facilities to their oricinal condition not to build things like new train terminals chat did not exist before. It wasn't clear vesterday if Congress would need to pass a law to allow the change, ( or if it could be accomplished simply rewriting by the agency's regulations. Here's a partial list of the proposed transit projects Improvements tunnels and Staten $500 miliion Island bridges Securty system enhancements/Video- Rectorconnec or surveillance systems Connechion between s6S mition subway Stations on Mesdevinecand mes or Fulton Transit Center NRAuineeaaRector Street A malor uporade to $70 million the Fulton Streat Stationwith Improved connections $750 milion Air controllers' anguish / P. 23 er Path ferminal Permanent PATH terminal 1 or 2 blocks east of tormer terminal SL5 billion a Downtown concourse Underground walkway from World Financial Ctr. to Fulton Transit Ctre $500 Million N Bus Terminal/ infrastructure Bus Terminal near WTCsite and associated road ТОЯСУ Menmition Hoboken ferry ferminal Reconstruction/reha bilitation of old main ferminas 5105 million ar World Financlal center/Battery Park city Ferry Terminal Expansion of Battery Park terminal and seawall work 440 million e Secunmval Sallensyshosin AIUIRR capachy at fuiton Streesfransn center study for LIRR Service ro lower Manhattan and a South Ferry Station kpossible drure New terminal sobwas connendons an stationforc9lines transit center with increased *250 million NYC-WTC_000143189