NYT event listing for Children's Museum, Nov 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

such as dedicated bus lanes. The group targeted several aspects of the concept for further devel­ opment, including adequacy of curbside frontage on key routes, potential two-way operation on lower Church Street, and details of enhanced curbside treatment and intermodal transfers at Battery Place and on Church Street and Route 9A where these roadways cross the cast-west concourses of the proposed Lower Manhattan Transit Complex.

One problem the group identified for further attention is the deficit in available storage capacity even for existing levels of bus activity. Most commuter and tour buses serving Lower Manhattan are stored outside rhe area at present. Some park on the periphery of Lower Manhattan in loca­ tions likely to be unavailable as redevelopment plans proceed. Operational inefficiencies! and site availability complicate efforts to identify additional bus storage sites north of Lower Manhattan or in Brooklyn or Hudson County.

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